Wean Yourself

From Chapter 6: CONTROLLING THE DESIRE-BODY
Book III, Verses 49-62
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Thus, our life depends on weaning; gradually strive until the speech is complete.  
When a human was a fetus, they were nourished by blood; similarly, a believer attains purity from impurity.  
From the weaning of blood, their nourishment became milk; and from the weaning of milk, they began to take morsels.  
From the weaning of morsels, they become wise; they seek hidden truths.  
If someone told the fetus in the womb, there is an organized world outside,  
A lush land with breadth and length, with a hundred blessings and many foods,  
Mountains, seas, and plains, gardens, orchards, and fields,  
A sky so high and full of light, the sun, the moon, and a hundred stars,  
From the south, north, and west, it has gardens, weddings, and feasts.  
The wonders of that world cannot be described; what are you doing in this darkness in trial?  
You consume blood in a tight confinement, amidst imprisonment, filth, and distress.  
According to its current state, it would deny this; it would turn away from this message and become a disbeliever,  
Saying this is impossible, deceit, and delusion, because the blind imagination has no image of it.  
When it has not seen the essence of something, its perception does not hear; its denial is due to lack of understanding.

Barks Interpretation

Little by little, wean yourself.