If the two of you could together shout and scratch and bite and tear and break—if all those things could be done together, why not meditate and be loving and compassionate together? Or is companionship only for biting into each other?
So, having been companions, now it is your responsibility to help and guide and accompany the other towards light as well. Otherwise, it’s a very strange thing. You are saying, “As long as we were in the dark, we were companions; and now that there is light, I shall be alone.” That’s a bit inhuman.