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different at night from what it looked like in the afternoon. Alas ! All things are emphemeral.
Fleeting like a cloud dissipated by stormy winds, affluence or wealth is unsteady like the tide and ebb of an ocean; the kingship exists only as long as a dream; and youth is like a pod of fibres tossed about by the winds. Therefore, ponder over transitoriness of every thing in this world, in order to cultivate the feeling of equanimity to tame the snake of desire.
इन्द्रोपेन्द्रादयोऽप्येते यन्मृत्योर्यान्ति गोचरम् । अहो ! तदन्तकातङ्कं कः शरण्यः शरीरिणाम् ॥ ६१ ॥ पितुर्मातुः स्वसुर्मातुस्तनयानां च पश्यताम् । अत्राणो नीयते जन्तुः कर्मभिर्यमसद्मनि ॥ ६२ ॥ शोचन्ति स्वजनानन्तं नीयमानान् स्वकर्मभिः । नेष्यमाणं तु शोचन्ति नात्मानं मूढबुद्धयः ॥ ६३ ॥ संसारे दुःखदावाग्नि ज्वलज्ज्वालाकरालिते । वने मृगाभकस्येव शरणं नास्ति देहिनः ॥ ६४ ॥
Meaning: Alas! when even the great humans like Vasudevas and heavenly beings like Indra are not free from the clutches of death, where can the ordinary people seek refuge from death?
Within a blink of an eye, a creature is led to the house of death (any of four states of next life according to one's karmas), while father, mother, brother, son, daughter, etc., watch helplessly.
The ignorant people mourn the end (death) through precipitation of the karmas but they never
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