the creature issues out of the womb, the form it presents is such that its nails and fingers seem to be of the hue of burnished copper.  The next stage is said to be infancy, when the form that was seen at the time of birth becomes changed.  From infancy youth is reached, and from youth, old age.  As the creature advances from one stage into another, the form presented in the previous stage becomes changed.  The constituent elements of the body, which serve diverse functions in the general economy, undergo change every moment in every creature.  Those changes, however, are so minute that they cannot be noticed.[1700] The birth of particles, and their death, in each successive condition, can not be marked, O king, even as one cannot mark the changes in the flame of a burning lamp.[1701] When such is the state of the bodies of all creatures,—­that is when that which is called the body is changing incessantly even like the rapid locomotion of a steed of good mettle,—­who then has come whence or not whence, or whose is it or whose is it not, or whence does it not arise?  What connection does there exist between creatures and their own bodies?[1702] As from the contact of flint with iron, or from two sticks of wood when rubbed against each other, fire is generated, even so are creatures generated from the combination of the (thirty) principles already named.  Indeed, as thou thyself seest thy own body in thy body and as thou thyself seest thy soul in thy own soul, why is it that thou dost not see thy own body and thy own soul in the bodies and souls of others?  If it is true that thou seest an identity with thyself and others, why then didst thou ask me who I am and whose?  If it is true that hast, O king been freed from the knowledge of duality that (erroneously) says—­this is mine and this other is not mine,—­then what use is there with such questions as Who art thou, whose art thou and whence dost thou come?  What indications of Emancipation can be said to occur in that king who acts as others act towards enemies and allies and neutrals and in victory and truce and war?  What indications of Emancipation occur in him who does not know the true nature of the aggregate of three as manifested in seven ways in all acts and who, on that account, is attached to that aggregate of three?[1703] What indications of Emancipation exist in him who fails to cast an equal eye on the agreeable, on the weak, and the strong?  Unworthy as thou art of it, thy pretence of Emancipation should be put down by thy counsellers!  This thy endeavour to attain to Emancipation (when thou hast so many faults) is like the use of medicine by a patient who indulges in all kinds of forbidden food and practices.  O chastiser of foes, reflecting upon spouses and other sources of attachment, one should behold these in one’s own soul.  What else can be looked upon as the indication of Emancipation?  Listen now to me as I speak in detail of these and certain other minute sources of attachment appertaining to the four well