<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=548836" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Come, Let Us Go For A Walk, O Mind</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come, let us go for a walk, O mind,<br>to Kali, the Wish-fulfilling Tree,<br>And there beneath It gather the four fruits of life.<br>Of your two wives, Dispassion and Worldliness,<br>Bring along Dispassion only, on your way to the Tree,<br>And ask her son Discrimination about the Truth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When will you learn to lie, O mind,<br>in the abode of Blessedness,<br>With Cleanliness and Defilement on either side of you? <br>Only when you have found the way<br>To keep these wives contentedly under a single roof,<br>Will you behold the matchless form of Mother Shyama.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ego and Ignorance, your parents,<br>instantly banish from your sight; <br>And should Delusion seek to drag you to its hole,<br>Manfully cling to the pillar of Patience.<br>Tie to the post of Unconcern the goats of Vice and Virtue,<br>Killing them with the sword of Knowledge if they rebel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With the children of Worldliness, your first wife,<br>plead from a goodly distance<br>And, if they will not listen,<br>drown them in Wisdom's sea.<br>Says Ramprasad: If you do as I say,<br>You can submit a good account,<br>O mind, to the King of Death,<br>And I shall be well pleased with you<br>and call you my darling.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Translated from Bengali by Elizabeth U. Harding]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ramprasad+Sen">Ramprasad Sen</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=548836" data-title="Come, Let Us Go For A Walk, O Mind de Ramprasad Sen" data-description="Come, let us go for a walk, O mind, to Kali, the Wish-fulfilling Tree, And there beneath It gather the four fruits of life. Of your two wives, Dispassion and Worldliness, Bring along Dispassion only, on your way to the Tree, And ask her son Discri..."></div> </div> </div>

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