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. 36. THE SECTION ON LOVE
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sthis mortal world (world of human beings); but if you ordain my birth in the world of human beings, then do not make me susceptible to the feeling of love; and if you make me susceptible to love, then do not let me undergo separation (from the object of my love)!
349*4) Altogether different is that love, which, though split up into a hundred pieces, becomes fused again like a drop of quick-silver. But oh deer-eyed damsel, our love when split up does not become fused again like a pearl.
349*5) In the case of the lotus in the form of love, which has petals in the form of helpfulness (obliging disposition), Tadiating from the stalk in the form of affection and which emits the fragrance in the form of amorous dalliance, the blighting frost of jealous anger spells its ruin.
349:6) Alas, I know how love is in this world formed with firm (steady, strong) hope, but how it is tortured (foiled) by Fate (27?).
349:7) Love is nectar so long as it does not waver (i. e. so long as it is constant). Love which is vacillating (inconstant, fickle) surpasses (is more dangerous than) poison. Oh deer-eyed one, have you anywhere seen or heard of nectar which is impregnated with poison (i, e. which has the potentiality of turning into poison)?
349*8) The heart of a wicked person, like an earthen pot made by a pot-maker, cannot be reunited, when once it is broken (estranged). But the mind of a good person, like a jar made of gold, can be fused though it may have been broken into a hundred pieces.
3499) A golden bangle, and an anklet and a city, though. broken (smashed), can be repaired (fused, reunited). But love once broken (estranged) cannot be reunited (repaired) like a genuine (noble) pearl.
349*10) Oh dark-complexioned girl, no person is ever seen who is able to reunite love which has been broken (alienated) (i.e. such a person is yet to be born). The fragments of a baked earthen pot cannot be rejoined with one another.
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