CHAPTER XXIV.
Do not let the object of your affections out of your sight. If you would make firm the bond of love let the cord be short. Keep the beloved one within sight. In absence how many poisonous fruits are grown. Him from whom you parted with tears, thinking, "How shall I live without him?" when you met again, some years later, you merely asked, "Are you well?" or perhaps said nothing to him, inwardly you are divided. Or it may be that in anger or in pride you see him no more. At any rate, if not so bad as that, after an absence things are not as they were before. What goes does not return. What breaks can never be reformed. Waters let loose, are they ever again confined?
Bhramar did not well in suffering Gobind Lâl to go to a distance. Had they been together at this time I think this misunder-
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