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sagot
57
Wealth is fickle like lightning, body is. ephemeral like an unbaked earthen pot, associ. ations are momentary like a dream and the ghost' of death is at hand; therefore one should be devoted to Dharma.
58
You ever enjoy pleasures by nourishing and embellishing your body. But you have not come here for that purpose. Abandoning delicacy discharge your duty.
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59
Think about the foul transformation the objects undergo, when they are thrown out of : the body--the very objects once enjoyed as
· palatable dishes and extra-ordinarily flavoured • drinks.
60
Even you may resort to medicinal compounds serving as elixir vitæ and tonics; yet the physical (jarlike) frame can never be made to acquire immunity from destruction.