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In the Padma Purana, you, O Lord, knowing my body to be subject to old age, should not be angry. Be patient and joyful. ||7|| Hearing these words, the king, adorned with earrings, placed his hand on his cheek and pondered. ||72|| This body, like a water bubble, is fleeting. Youth, like the light of twilight, is full of illusions. ||73|| For the sake of this body, which is as swift as lightning, humans undertake many actions, which are ultimately the cause of suffering. ||74|| These pleasures are like the glances of a drunken woman, deceitful, like the fangs of a snake, terrifying, and like fire, they increase suffering. ||75|| The suffering that comes from pursuing these fleeting and difficult-to-obtain objects appears as happiness to the foolish. ||76|| These objects of desire, though initially alluring, are like the fruits of a poisonous tree. It is strange that people desire them. ||77|| Those who are virtuous, enthusiastic, and have attained supreme enlightenment, seeing these objects as poison, engage in austerities. ||78|| When will I abandon these objects, escape from the prison of attachment, and practice the austerities prescribed by the Jinas, which are the cause of liberation? ||79|| The earth has been ruled with ease, the appropriate pleasures have been enjoyed, and valiant sons have been born. What else is there to wait for? ||80|| It is our ancestral tradition that our valiant descendants, renouncing worldly attachments, entrust the kingdom to their sons and enter the forest to practice austerities. ||81|| The king, though he pondered in this way and his attachment to pleasures weakened, still remained attached to his home due to the influence of his past actions. ||82|| For whatever is to be obtained, by whom, where, when, and how much, is obtained at that time, in that place, by that person, and in that way. There is no doubt about it. ||83||