The serpent has no home. It roams in solitude. So do I.
Narayana draws in the whole creation at the end of the Kalpa and becomes
one, the resort of all.
By Kala Sakti, the thread, Mahat, first comes out and the universe is
again brought into manifestation. The spider brings the thread out of
himself, spreads out the web and devours it himself.
(There is a kind of wasp, which catches a particular insect and carries
it into a hole. It is supposed that the insect assumes the form of the
wasp through fear.) When either through affection, hatred, or fear, a
man throws his whole heart upon some object and the mind holds it fast,
he attains the form of that object. I have learned this from the wasp.
Thus I have learned from my Gurus, My own body is also my Guru. I have
learned from it dispassion and discrimination. The body is born only to
die. Constant misery is its lot. I know the truths, by a discriminative
study of the body. Still I regard it as not mine and so I feel no
attachment for it (The body belongs to the dogs and jackals who devour
it after death. _Sridhara_.)
What does not a man do for the enjoyment of the body -- but it comes to
an end after all, having created the germs of another body.
The possessor of the body is now drawn away by this sense, now by that
sense, now by this action now by that action. The senses suck his very
life blood, even as the many wives of one husband.
The Lord created vegetable and animal bodies. But he was not satisfied
with them. For the human body only has the power to perceive Brahman.
Therefore after many births, when the human body is once attained, one
should strive promptly for his supreme bliss.
Yadu heard these words of wisdom, and he gave up all attachments.