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Padmapurane
As a mother embraces her child, so does death take away the embodied being. Just as a snake drags out a snake from the nether regions, so does death take away the living being. ||28||
Alas, O dear brother, dear son! Thus wailing in great distress, the world-tortured frog is being swallowed by the terrible serpent of time. ||29||
"I am doing this, I will do that" - with such an evil-minded attitude, the person enters the dreadful mouth of Yama, like a ship entering the ocean. ||30||
If a person follows the one who has gone to another existence, then there will never be separation from the desired and the undesired. ||31||
One who, out of pride, shows affection towards others, that human-elephant surely enters the fire of suffering. ||32||
The multitudes of kinsmen that have come to the transmigratory existence of those who drink the nectar of existence, are not even equal to the grains of sand in the ocean. ||33||
The one who was pampered elsewhere with various acts of affection, the same one, having attained the status of an enemy, is killed by that very one with great fury. ||34||
Fie on this world where the flesh of the one whose breasts were suckled in another life, is eaten, the one who was earlier worshipped as the master by bowing the head. ||35||
Behold the power of this delusion by which the being, being subjugated, seeks union like a hand seeking a great serpent. ||37||
There is not even a tiny space in the universe where the living being, having arrived, does not experience death or birth. ||38||
Whatever molten copper and other impurities the being has drunk in the hells, there is not even that much water in the self-existent ocean. ||39||
The being who, endowed with the boar-form, has been made to eat the excrement - I think he is far beyond even thousands of Vindhyas. ||40||
The mass of heads severed by mutual destruction, if it were to block the path of the luminaries, then... ||41||