Suktimuktavali 90

90

Now, the section on dispassion: / That which is water to the dust of inauspicious deeds, an elephant-goad for the rutted tuskers of the senses, / a flower garden of spiritual welfare, a chain for the maddened elephant of the mind, / a pleasure house for the maiden of renunciation, a medicine for the fever of love, / and a chariot on the path to liberation—having reflected upon that dispassion, become fearless! / Just as a violent wind ends a glittering mass of clouds, a forest-fire's flame [ends] / a grove of trees, the solar disk [ends] the circle of darkness, / and the thunderbolt brings to an end a collection of mountains—so does dispassion alone destroy all karma. .. 90 ..