Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

Part One. Translations from Sanskrit
Section Four. Bhartrihari. The Century of Life

On Virtue

Water and Milk

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.