FRUIT OF REALISATION

Standing first on bank, I dipped ⁹kamandal for water to ¹⁰abhishek purpose But found millions of acquatic animals moving listless, as if under curse The entire water is so mingled with their filth oozing thro' outlets all That it's stincking, dicoloured and putrid with impurities of kinds all

With heart heavy went straight to a garden for flowers to offering And lo! before I laid hand, swarms of bees and flies rose up buzzing And how damnable it's those multi - coloured velvetty petals charming Tampered and trampled by their lewd dalliance of pricking and sucking. 

Thought then I of plucking some glosary, fleecy supple leaves nascent But found the surfaces defiled by the excrements of insects countless Deeming them unfit even fir touching or looking for any purpose decent I doubled up to a tree nearby bent with ripe luscious fruits numberless

Glossary:

9. vessel used by sages etc., for holding water... 
10. anointing of idols... 

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