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In the Padma Purana, some were engrossed in self-study, humming sweet sounds like bees, while others were seated in Padmasana with their minds focused. ||108|| Seeing these munis, the king's pride, like a sprout, was broken. He descended from his elephant and bowed to the munis. The king's name was Vijayaparbata. ||109|| The king, who had attained proper understanding in worldly matters, bowed to all the munis in succession and reached the Acharya. Bowing at his feet, he said, "O best of men! Your radiance is as bright as your auspicious signs. Why then are worldly pleasures not situated at your feet?" ||110-111|| The Acharya replied, "What kind of understanding do you have in your body? Your understanding, which considers the body to be permanent, is false and increases the cycle of birth and death." ||112|| Indeed, this life is as fickle as the ears of an elephant calf, and this human body resembles the pith of a banana tree. ||113|| This wealth and the company of relatives are like a dream. Knowing this, what is there to desire in them? The more you think about these worldly possessions, the more painful they seem. ||114|| This life has resided countless times in a womb that is like hell, terrifying, filled with foul odor, teeming with worms, a reservoir of blood and phlegm, and overflowing with filth. Yet, enveloped in the darkness of great delusion, this being is not afraid of it. ||115-116|| This body, a repository of all impurities, is fleeting, unprotected, ungrateful, and filled with delusion. It is entangled in a network of nerves, covered with a thin skin, afflicted with numerous diseases, and despised by the arrival of old age. This body is despicable. ||117-118|| How can those who are devoid of consciousness, that is, the power of discrimination, find well-being in this body, which is subject to such conditions? ||119|| This soul, like a traveling merchant, is setting out for the other world, but these thieves in the form of senses are stopping it by forcibly robbing people. ||120|| This king of beings, surrounded by the women of delusion, is playing.