Love is light

Though love is light it becomes darkness when its law is not understood

1)---Now what the ear likes to hear is music, 

and 

the prohibition of it is what I call obstruction to the ear

2)---What the eye likes to look at is beauty;

 and

 its not being permitted to regard this beauty I call obstruction of sight

3)---What the nose likes to smell is perfume; 

and

 its not being permitted to smell I call obstruction to scent

4)---What the mouth likes to talk about is right

 and 

wrong; and if it is not permitted to speak

 I call it obstruction of the understanding

5)---The comforts the body enjoys to have are rich food 

and fine clothing; 

and if it is not permitted, 

then I call that obstruction of the senses of the body

6)---What the mind likes is to be at peace; 

and 

its not being permitted rest I call obstruction of the mind's nature

7)---All these obstructions are a source of the most painful vexation

8)---Morbidly to cultivate this cause of vexation, 

unable to get rid of it, 

and so have a long but very sad life of a hundred, 

a thousand, 

or ten thousand years,

 is not what I call cherishing life

9)---But to check this source of obstruction 

and 

with calm enjoyment to await death for a day,

a month, 

or a year or ten years,

 is what I understand by enjoying life


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