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In the Padma Purana, you are grieving and lamenting separation, but you are aware of the glory of the Jina teachings. Why are you engaging in this sorrowful meditation, which only increases your suffering? ||76|| O Vaidehi, do you not know that the state of the world is like this: impermanent, without refuge, characterized by oneness and otherness? ||77|| You are grieving repeatedly like a woman with a false perception. You have constantly heard the true meaning from the virtuous. ||78|| Surely, the foolish-hearted being, attached to the cycle of births and deaths, and unaware of the path to liberation, has experienced countless sorrows in this life. ||79|| The being, dwelling in the ocean of existence and immersed in the whirlpool of afflictions, has experienced countless unions and separations. ||80|| As a celestial being, an aquatic being, or a terrestrial being, the being has endured unbearable suffering in the lower realms, born from rain, cold, and heat. ||81|| Even in the human realm, what great suffering has the being not experienced, arising from insults, slander, separation, and abuse? ||82|| In the realm of the gods, the being has experienced great suffering arising from bad conduct, the sight of great wealth, and the fall from that state. ||83|| And, O auspicious one, how can the suffering experienced in the hells be described? It arises from cold, heat, caustic substances, weapons, vicious creatures, and mutual killing and beating. ||84|| O Maithili, in this life, the being has experienced countless separations, anxieties, illnesses, painful deaths, and sorrows. ||85|| There is no place in this world, whether above, in the middle, or below, where the being has not experienced the suffering of birth, death, and old age. ||86|| Driven by the wind of its own karma, the being constantly wanders in the ocean of existence. Even in the human realm, the being has obtained a female body like this. ||87|| You are endowed with the remaining good and bad karmas. Your husband, Rama, is beautiful with virtues and born of auspicious fortune. ||88|| You attained happiness with him, born of auspicious fortune. Now, due to the rise of inauspicious fortune, you have experienced unbearable suffering. ||89|| You reached Lanka, carried by Ravana. There, you stopped wearing garlands and applying unguents, and on the eleventh day... ||90||