nine sentiments

 O Beautiful! 

1. If Thou didst serve the old persons before, 
2. if Thou hadst heard the science of politics and morals, 
3. if Thou hadst studied the political economy, joined the assemblage of the Pundits or 
4. if Thou hast been well versed in literature and Tantras, then hear this my good counsel which will serve as a medicinal diet to Thee. 

Out of the nine sentiments, 

1. the S’ringâra (Amorous love sentiments) and 
2. S’ânti (Peace) are considered as the chief by the assemblage of the Pundits. 

Again out of these two, the love sentiment is the king. Drenched with this sentiment, 

1. Visnu lives with Kamalâ; 
2. Brahmâ, the four-faced, lives with Sâvitri; 
3. Indra with S’achî and 
4. S’ankara resides with his wife Umâ. 
5. The tree stands with creepers surrounding it, 
6. the deer lives with his female deer, 
7. the pigeon lives with the female pigeon; 

thus all the beings are very attached to this sentiment of remaining in couples. 

Those who cannot enjoy owing to certain disease or illness, they are deprived by Fate of such enjoyments. Those who are ignorant of this love sentiment in couples, they are deprived of it by the sweet jugglery of words of the cheat and yet attached to the Peace sentiment. When delusion, the destroyer of Buddhi, the common sense, occurs, when the violent indomitable anger, greed, and lust arise, where, then, is the place for knowledge and dispassion? 

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