SRI AUROBINDO
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Kalidasa
Bhartrihari. The Century of Life
On Virtue
By water and sweet milk example Love.
Milk all its sweetness to the water gives,
For in one wedded self their friendship lives;
And when hot pangs the one to anguish move,
The other immolates itself to fire.
To steal his friend’s grief is a friend’s desire.
He seeing his friend’s hard state is minded too
To seek the flame; but happily again
Wedded to him is eased of all his pain.
This friendship is, one heart that’s shared by two.