Doha 85

The minds of all were seized with lust; the boughs of trees bent low at the sight of creepers. Rivers in spate rushed to meet the ocean; lakes and ponds united in love with one another. (1) When such was the case with the inanimate creation, who can relate the doings of sentient beings? Beasts that walk on land and birds traversing in the sky and water lost all sense of time and became victims of lust. (2) The whole world was blinded with passion and was agitated. The Cakravāka birds, (ruddy geese)* cared for neither day nor night. Gods, demons, human beings, Kinnaras (a class of demi-gods), serpents, evil spirits, fiends, ghosts and vampires— (3) * The red gander and goose are said to unite only during the daytime. They cannot meet at night even if there is no physical barrier between them. During the brief span of time referred to above they ignored this natural bar and met even during the night. I have refrained from dwelling on the condition of these, knowing them to be eternal slaves of passion. Even Siddhas (spiritual adepts), great sages, who had no attraction for the world and Yogīs (mystics), gave up their Yoga (contemplative union with God) under the influence of lust. (4)

Even great Yogīs and ascetics were completely possessed by lust, to say nothing of low-minded people? Those who till lately looked upon the animate and inanimate creation as full of Brahma (God) now saw it as full of the fair sex. Women perceived the whole world as full of men, while the latter beheld it as full of women. For nearly an hour this strange game of Love lasted in the universe.

Nobody could maintain self-control; the hearts of all were stolen by the god of love. They alone could hold on their own on whom Śrī Raghunātha bestowed His protection. (85)