protection [Footnote: Or this may mean "since Vish.nu has accepted
it as the instrument of his sport."]; thou art made pure by the
knowledge of Him, as all minerals shine as gold [when brought in
contact with the philosopher's stone].

109. Dispassion and enjoyment stand equally aloof as disinterested
spectators and are lost in faith; the partaking of the consecrated
food is in no sense to be called an "enjoyment,"--it is itself an
act of faith [Footnote: "The __prasada__ is any article of food
that has been consecrated by previous presentation to an idol,
after which it is distributed among the worshippers on the spot, or
sent to persons of consequence at their own houses" (Wilson's Works,
vol. 1. p. 116). Cf. also the legend in p. 134, where "Ram Das at
noon halted and bathed the god, and prepared his food, and presented
it, and then took the __prasad__, and put it in a vessel, and fed
upon what remained." (The food consecrated at the temple of Puri is
especially called the __Mahaprasada.__) There is a distich current
among the Bhaktas:].

110. By intense devotion to his object the man of the world will
become the devotee of enjoyment, and by the absence of all enjoyment
a man becomes absolutely dispassionate; this is the real truth
[Footnote: But the true devotee is neither devoted to enjoyment nor
to dispassion, is equally apart from and superior to both.

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__jnana.m nirak.ritir, Brahma tyaktva bhaktya bhajachyutam__ |
__yatra prasadasevapi bhaktir anyasya ka katha__ ||
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