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998-1007

  • How, then, should the reel, which is the body, become still, when the thread's end, which is the mind, is pulling it?
  • The sign of that pulling is your anguish: to be inactive is to you like the death-agony.
  • This world and that world are for ever giving birth: every cause is a mother, the effect is the child (born) from it. 1000
  • When the effect was born, that too became a cause, so that it might give birth to wondrous effects.
  • These causes are generation on generation, but it needs a very well illumined eye (to see all the links in their chain).”
  • The King, in conversation with him, arrived at this point: he either saw or did not see a sign.
  • If that searching King saw (such a sign), ’tis not strange; but we are not permitted to mention it.
  • When that (other) slave came from the warm bath, that King and lofty personage called him to his presence, 1005
  • (And) said, “Health (to you)! Lasting happiness be yours! You are very fine and elegant and good-looking.
  • Oh, alas! If there were not in you that which so-and-so says about you,