Verse 59

⁵⁴You and I, good friend, are two swans, companions whose home is the Manasa water; and for a thousand years we have been away from that home. ⁵⁵You, my friend, left me and went to the earth with a village mind, and wandering there you saw a place that some woman had built, ⁵⁶with five gardens, nine gates, one keeper, three rooms, six households, five markets, five constituents, and a woman for its lord. ⁵⁷The gardens are the five things the senses want; the gates, my lord, are the nine ways of the breath; the rooms are fire, water and food; the household is the gathering of the senses. ⁵⁸The market is the power to act; the constituents are the unfailing nature of the elements. The Person, who is lord of that power, has entered here and does not come to himself.

⁵⁹There, touched by that woman and taking your pleasure with her, you lost the memory of all you had heard; and by her company you came, my lord, to a state as bad as this.