63. Know Ráma! all created beings, are friendly and useful to you, and there is no body nor any in the world, wherewith you are not related in some way on your part. (No body is a unit himself, but forms a part of the universal whole).
64. It is erroneous to look <on> any one as a friend or foe, among the various orders of created beings in the universe; which in reality may be serviceable to you, however unfriendly they may appear at first.
CHAPTER XIX.
ON HOLY KNOWLEDGE.
Argument. Story of Punya and Pávana, and the instruction of the former to the latter.
Vasishtha continued:—I will now set before you an example on the subject (of the distinction of friend and foe), in the instance of two brothers, who were born of a sage on the banks of Ganges, going in three directions of tripatha or trisrot as trivia.
2. Hear then this holy and wonderful tale of antiquity, which now occurs to my mind on the subject of friends and enemies, which I have been relating to you.
3. There is in this continent of Jambudvípa (Asia), a mountainous region beset by groves and forests, with the high mount of Mahendra rising above the rest.
4. It touched the sky with its lofty peaks, and the arbour of its kalpa trees; spread its shadow over the hermits and kinnaras that resorted under its bower.
5. It resounded with the carol of the sages, who chaunted the Sámaveda hymns on it, in their passage from its caverns and peaks to the region of Indra (the god of the vault of heaven).
6. The fleecy clouds which incessantly drizzled with rain water from its thousand peaks; and washed the plants and flowers below, appeared as tufts of hair hanging down from heaven to earth.