“Amen,” said the false hermit, and added with crafty intent:—“If you let any one know of your losing your way and your meeting with me, that will not be my fault.
For I warn you, sir, that it is most inexpedient to repeat the matter; if it come to a third pair of ears, I tell you true it will be your ruin. If you divulge this secret, or if a Brahman curse you, you are undone, O Pratâpa-bhânu. When Hari and Hara are wrath, wretched man has no other way of escape.” “True, my lord,” said the king, clasping his feet; “who can deliver from the wrath of a Brahman or a spiritual director? The Guru can save from Brahma’s anger, but if the Guru himself be wrath, there is none in the world that can save. If I do not follow your advice, I have not the slightest doubt that I shall perish; but my soul is disturbed by one fear: the curse of a Brahman is something most terrible.”
For I warn you, sir, that it is most inexpedient to repeat the matter; if it come to a third pair of ears, I tell you true it will be your ruin. If you divulge this secret, or if a Brahman curse you, you are undone, O Pratâpa-bhânu. When Hari and Hara are wrath, wretched man has no other way of escape.” “True, my lord,” said the king, clasping his feet; “who can deliver from the wrath of a Brahman or a spiritual director? The Guru can save from Brahma’s anger, but if the Guru himself be wrath, there is none in the world that can save. If I do not follow your advice, I have not the slightest doubt that I shall perish; but my soul is disturbed by one fear: the curse of a Brahman is something most terrible.”