I be said to have any contact with the bodies of others?  Thou canst not charge me with having endeavoured to bring about an intermixture of castes.  Hast thou heard the religion of Emancipation in its entirety from the lips of Panchasikha together with its means, its methods, its practices, and its conclusion?[1708] If thou hast prevailed over all thy bonds and freed thyself from all attachments, may I ask thee, O king, who thou preservest thy connections still with this umbrella and these other appendages of royalty?  I think that thou hast not listened to the scriptures, or, thou hast listened to them without any advantage, or, perhaps, thou hast listened to some other treatises looking like the scriptures.  It seems that thou art possessed only of worldly knowledge, and that like an ordinary man of the world thou art bound by the bonds of touch and spouses and mansions and the like.  If it be true that thou Met been emancipated from all bonds, what harm have I done thee by entering thy person with only my Intellect?  With Yatis, among all orders of men, the custom is to dwell in uninhabited or deserted abodes.  What harm then have I done to whom by entering thy understanding which is truly of real knowledge?  I have not touched thee, O king, with my hands, of arms, or feet, or thighs, O sinless one, or with any other part of the body.  Thou art born in a high race.  Thou hast modesty.  Thou hast foresight.  Whether the act has been good or bad, my entrance into thy body has been a private one, concerning us two only.  Was it not improper for thee to publish that private act before all thy court?  These Brahmanas are all worthy of respect.  They are foremost of preceptors.  Thou also art entitled to their respect, being their king.  Doing them reverence, thou art entitled to receive reverence from them.  Reflecting on all this, it was not proper for thee to proclaim before these foremost of men the fact of this congress between two persons of opposite sexes, if, indeed, thou art really acquainted with the rules of propriety in respect of speech.  O king of Mithila, I am staying in thee without touching thee at all even like a drop of water on a lotus leaf that stays on it without drenching it in the least.  If, notwithstanding instructions of Panchasikha of the mendicant order, thy knowledge has become abstracted from the sensual objects to which it relates?  Thou hast, it is plain, fallen off from the domestic mode of life but thou hast not yet attained to Emancipation that is so difficult to arrive at.  Thou stayest between the two, pretending that thou hast reached the goal of Emancipation.  The contact of one that is emancipated with another that has been so, or Purusha with Prakriti, cannot lead to an intermingling of the kind thou dreariest.  Only those that regard the soul to be identical with the body, and that think the several orders and modes of life to be really different from one another, are open to the error of supposing an intermingling to