The ida that the soul will join with the ecstatic just because the body is rotten --that is all fantasy.

Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty?In that great absence you will find nothing.

Do not keep the slanderer away,
treat him with affection and honor:
Body and soul, he scours all clean,
babbling about this and that.

Do not go to the garden of flowers!O friend! go not there;In your body is the garden of flowers.Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.

Be strong then, and enter into your own body;there you have a sold place for your feet.Think about it carefully!Don't go off somewhere else!

Do not go to the garden of flowers!
O friend! go not there;
In your body is the garden of flowers.
Take your seat on the thousand petals of the
lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.