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The forty-seventh chapter: This lifespan is like the wind, pleasures are like clouds, attachments are perishable, the body is a vessel of sin, and worldly possessions are fleeting like lightning. ||236|| Youth is a dense forest, leading one astray from the right path. The pursuit of pleasure leads to aversion. ||237|| All this seems pleasurable as long as the mind is deluded. When the mind is true and virtuous, what is there to abandon? ||238|| If the tree of the mind keeps growing with the shoots of desires, how can it bear the fruits of sorrow on its branches of enjoyment? ||239|| I have enjoyed all ten kinds of pleasures for a long time, but I have never found satisfaction in this existence, which destroys thirst. ||240|| Even if all our desired objects were to be obtained, they would not bring us even a little happiness. ||241|| It is said that the attainment of pleasure from women is manhood, but what greater misery could there be? Therefore, one should become a man by realizing true happiness within oneself. ||242|| Thus, abandoning the crookedness of his mind, Shri Pal Chakravarti decided to renounce all possessions, including his royal insignia. ||243|| Then, he crowned his son, Sukhavatiputra, named Narapala, and placed him on his magnificent throne. He himself, along with his queens, Jayavati, etc., and kings, Vasupala, etc., took initiation. ||244-245|| He practiced external and internal austerities according to the rules, and by conquering the enemy of delusion, he attained the excellent character known as Yathakyata, which is free from impurities, and which is obtained by ascending the series of Kshatra. He meditated on the true nature of the self through the second white meditation, which is free from thoughts and reasoning. ||246-247||