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124 They are like the parrot that repeats the Divine name c Ra<M-Knsha, R&M-Ksha' the livelong day, but cries 'Kaw, Kaw' when caught by a cat, forgetting the Divine name.

116. A spring cushion is squeezed down when one sits upon it, but it soon resumes its original shape when the pressure is removed. So it is with worldly men. They are full of religious sentiments, so long as they hear religious talks ; but no sooner do they enter into the daily routine of the world, than they forget all those high and noble thoughts, and become as impure as before.

117. So long as the iron is in the furnace it is red-hot, but it becomes black as soon as it is taken out of the fire. So also is the worldly man. As long as he is in church or in the society of pious people, he is full of religious emo- tions, but no sooner does he come out of those associations than he loses them all

118. Some one said, ' When my boy Harish grows up, I will get him married, and give him the charge of the family; I shall then renounce the world, and begin to practise Yoga. 1 At this a Sidhu remarked, 'You will never find any opportunity of practising Yoga (devotion). You will say afterwards, " Harish and Girish are too much attached to me. They do not like to leave my company as yet." Then you will desire perhaps, " Let Harish have a son, and let me see that son married" And thus there will be no end of your desires.'

119. Flies sit at times on the sweetmeats kept exposed