108. The Yogins and Sawyisins are like snakes. The snake never digs a hole for itself, but it lives in the hole made by the mouse. When one hole becomes uninhabit- able, it enters into another hole. So the Yogins and the Sa/0ysins make no houses for themselves ; they pass their days in other men's houses to-day in one house, to-morrow in another.
107. The sage alone can recognise a sage. He who deals in cotton twists can alone tell of what number and quality a particular twist is made.
108. A sage was lying in a deep trance (Samidhi) by a roadside ; a thief passing by, saw him, and thought within himselfj 'This fellow, lying here, is a thief. He has been breaking into some house by night, and now sleeps ex- hausted. The police will very soon be here to catch him. So let me escape in time.' Thus thinking, he ran away. Soon after a drunkard came upon the sage, and said,
- Hallo I thou hast fallen into the ditch by taking a drop
too much. I am steadier than thou, and am not going to tumble.' Last of all came a sage, and understanding that a great sage was in a trance (Samdhi), he sat down, and touched him, and began to rub gently his holy feet
109. An itinerant Ssldhu came once upon the Kalf temple of Rani Blsamam, and seeing a dog eating the remains of a feast, he went up to him and said, embracing him, 'Brother, how is it that thou eatest alone, without giving me a share ?' So saying, he began to eat along with the dog. The people of the place naturally thought
