O King, this world is like a dense forest where people, roaming about looking for happiness, lose their way. There are six terrible thieves in this forest—the five senses, and their evil leader, the confused intellect. They attack and rob travellers of their possessions. Wandering around, lost in this forest, they become entangled in the creepers of worldly attachments, and suffer from various sorrows and afflictions. O King, you too are in this jungle. What is the way out? Love all beings, practise detachment, offer all your work to the Lord, and with the sword of knowledge, sharpened by the
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