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341) He sleeps peacefully, he is free from all sorrow, he is the abode of hundreds of happinesses (the abode of endless happiness), for whom there is no one dear to him in speech, thought and action.
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342) Let any one in the whole world speak out: who has not been distressed because of that notorious love, which is comparable with a wild fire (in a forest), spreading out furiously, being wooed by a strong gale?
343) Oh you of a darkish complexion! In this accursed, wretched world, we do not see any one, who having (once) lost (surrendered) his (or her) heart (to another), is able to pass his (or her) days happily.
344) Alas! We have been fooled (have been made ridiculous) by that wretched (accursed) love, which like a crow on a (sea-faring) vessel, comes to rest after having soared here and there in the sky.
345) When jealous anger has gone away, when affection has vanished and good feeling has disappeared, what is the use of that love which is practised by request?
346) Love of five kinds (i.e. under these five circumstances) wears away-by not looking at each other, by looking at each other too much (too often), by not talking (freely) on seeing each other, by haughty anger and by (frequently) going out on journeys.
347) Oh child (boy), as a result of not looking at each other, the affections of even those, whose minds are bound together by love, drop away (disappear) in course of time like water held in the cavity (hollow) of the two hands (joined together).
348) Of love that has been first estranged (nullified) and then patched up, as also of love which has actually witnessed its breach (by the other party), the flavour becomes insipid (deflavoured) (i.e. is lost), as in the case of water first heated and then cooled.
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