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The Hundred and Tenth Chapter
347
Those whose minds were attached to affection, who were afraid of the world, who were completely averse to the pleasures obtained by the senses, who were adorned with the support given by noble heroism, and whose minds were engaged in contemplating the truth, all those Kumaras, after a moment's reflection, said: "In this world, mothers, fathers, and others have come and gone countless times. This house is like a prison for those who are bound by affection.
70-72.
Fools serve this cage-like house, which is the ultimate beginning of sin and which increases various sorrows, not the wise.
73.
We will act with firm determination so that bodily and mental suffering will not befall us again. Are we our own enemies?
74.
Even though a householder thinks, "I am innocent, I have no sins," he still becomes stained like a white cloth that is kept.
75.
Because those who dwell in the household experience suffering again and again, and because they find pleasure in sin, great souls have abandoned the householder's dharma.
76.
You have said, "Enjoy wealth well," but you are throwing us into a dark well, even though you are wise.
77.
Just as a hunter kills a deer that is drinking water from thirst, so death kills a man who is not satisfied with pleasures.
78.
This world, attached to the attainment of objects, is dependent, ignorant, and without medicine. It plays with snakes in the form of desires.
79.
These men, like fish, who are immersed in the reservoir of the house and attached to the flesh of objects, are caught by death through the power of the flute of disease.
80.
Therefore, the Lord of the human world, the Lord Jinendra, who is worshipped by the three worlds, has said that the world is subject to its own karma.
81.
Therefore, O father! These pleasures, which have no good outcome, which are the temptation of loved ones, which are hated by the wise, and which are as fickle as lightning, are completely attached to them, that is,
1. स्नेहबन्धनमेतद्धि चारकं नारकं गृहम् म०, ख० ।