Nothing is as beloved as this body. It is taken to a corner and allowed to enter deep sleep, then someone may take money, clothes and other objects; in fact, they may even cut the head and go away and still it is not noticed. This is what is done for the body. Then how is it possible to prevent attachment towards those who nourish the body and serve the body? Realize that the body will die tomorrow, so separate from it. Then: Jenu re man vānchhtu, ati rahetā udāsji. Te re tākyā vastiye vasvā, bāndhi sau sange āshji. Jene re gamti jiran kanthā, jevu tenu jal thāmji. Tene rangya rudā tambolā, gamtā māne vastra gāmogāmji.1 Swami recited this (devotional song). For the disciple it is also similar: Potāno parivār parhari, chālyo eklo āpji; Tene re karyo sneh shishya shu, lidho parno santāpji.2 That a guru hankers after a disciple and when the disciple leaves he experiences misery. Therefore, acquire spiritual knowledge. Footnotes: 1. 1. One whose mind craved for the forests and remained aloof from the world, such a renunciant today lives with the people and is bound to them with strings of hope. One who used to wear old plain clothes and made do with a simple vessel to drink water now has colourful wooden tumbadis (drinking vessels) and roams the villages asking for clothes. 2. Having renounced his own family, he moved alone, but now he is attached to his disciple, and carries others’ miseries on his head.