48 THE VAIRAGYA-SATAKAM
shadow of a lamp's flame flickering through the puff of the wings of a deluded moth.
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��81. Oh dear! in our quest through the three worlds from the very beginning of their creation, none such has come within sight or hearing, that can manage the prancings in the trap of the elephant of his mind when mad- dened by the mysterious, deep-rooted infatua- tion for the female elephant of sense-object.
[ ^SRRR is the elephant-trap, t^t^f--* of the
maddened.' ]
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���82; This freedom to wander about, food to which no meanness attaches, , company of holy men, the cultivation of \ tion of Vedic wisdom of which ( unlike Vedic vows ) the only fruit is spiritual peace, the mind also restrained in its movements to- wards external things, ---to such a cons urn-
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