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In this spell of unconsciousness, he dreamed dreams and saw things-terrible, hair-raising and thought-provoking
There were moments in which Evil seemed to triumph It was powerfully suggested to his mind Fight against that he had become a successful businesssenses
man, and that his coffers were all full of gold and silver He was spellbound to gaze upon the jewellery of the exquisite workmanship, though he did not wish to see it He saw gold bars, first in dazzling lustre, but soon changed to yellow snakes wriggling away as he kicked them in contempt He felt hungry and thirsty. So hungry that he would eat a basketful of Idlı-Dhosa? and so thirsty that he would drink a bucketful of Soup But something whispered, "You are to practise penance You are washing your sins” He was tempted to gather the 'forbidden frut,' luscious and fair His trembling hand plucked it from Nowhere, and put it into the mouth He just but it and his mouth tasted ashes He felt he was kneeling against silk and satins, so soft and cooling to his morbidly hot body .....picture after picture of luxurious ease and effeminate indolence was set before his mind by the fever-heated imagination
There is no faculty which is so resourceful as imagination, in making images, a faculty which serves both ways It helps man soul-ward, of controlled and directed by the intellect and unmans man if left to itself Rup 'pulled up and asserted his will So, it
