What metaphors does Chapter 23 use to describe the soul's attachment to worldly existence and the path to freedom?

Chapter 23 employs powerful analogies to illustrate the soul's delusion. It compares the sensual soul to a pig (Sukara) that finds supreme happiness in a small, foul-smelling pool of water, highlighting how we can become attached to base pleasures. The chapter also uses the metaphor of a parrot (Shuka) in a cage. This parrot has lost its freedom but considers its cage with golden bars to be a place of great happiness, fearing the world outside. This represents the soul (Jiva) trapped by Maya, unaware of the bliss of true freedom. The chapter concludes this analogy by stating that an extraordinary master, the Guru, is needed to lovingly apply ointment (Anjan) to the parrot's eyes, granting it true vision and liberation.