part 2
Indeed, all those who seek to
manifest their inner Reality
should therefore prevent the stones (desires)
from disturbing the equanimity of the mind.
The fly rests one moment
on the sacred food-offerings on
the altar of God and the next moment on filth.
The mind seeks refuge in
holy thoughts and things; the next moment,
it revels in some fearsome, foul ideas.
The mind is like the elephant.
The mahout gives it a nice bath;
he scrubs it clean and chains it to a shady tree.
But it gathers dust with its trunk
and scatters it all over itself!
Man, too, urged by the senses,
pours in his mind dust and dirt.
divinely sent
