Fuel in hand, he came back again. Prajapati said to him: 'Maghavan, you went away with Virochana satisfied in heart; desiring what have you come back?' He said: 'Revered sir, just as this reflected self is well adorned when the body is well adorned, well dressed when it is well dressed, groomed when it is groomed, even so it is blind when the body is blind, lame when it is lame, maimed when it is maimed; it perishes with the very perishing of this body. I see no good in this.'
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