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The Fifty-Fourth Chapter
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He was happy, like a giver, in the enjoyment of his own face, for the sake of the eager, beautiful, and curious women. || 199 || There was no obstacle for him in seeing the lotus-face of his beloved, except the hovering of the bees, fearing the lotus-flower. || 200 || What is impossible in the world, when even the fickle, thirsty, and indiscriminate, and impure bees (drunkards) can enter? || 201 || Thus, enjoying the wealth of the kingdom, when their six lakh fifty thousand previous and twenty-four previous births' long time passed like a moment, they were one day looking at their lotus-face in the mirror in the house of ornaments. || 202-203 || There, having determined the cause of dispassion to be something on the face, they began to think: "Look, this body is perishable, and the pleasure derived from it is also like that, painful." || 204 || What is the happiness that does not arise from one's own soul? What is the wealth that is fickle? What is the youth that is perishable? And what is the life that is finite? || 205 || What is the association with relatives, if it is followed by separation? I am the same, the objects are the same, the senses are the same, the pleasure and experience are the same, and the activity is the same, but all this changes again and again in this world. || 206-207 || I know what has happened in this world and what is going to happen, yet I am repeatedly falling into delusion, which is strange. || 208 || I have been considering the impermanent as permanent, remembering the sorrow as happiness, considering the impure as pure, and knowing the other as the self. || 209 || Thus, afflicted by ignorance, this being, whose end is very difficult, has been suffering for a long time in the ocean of the world, by the four kinds of great sorrows and terrible diseases. || 210 || Thus, having obtained the opportunity of time, they were distressed, as if they were troubled by the desire to leave the path of the world, by means of long and virtuous deeds. || 211 || Remembering the eternal truth, they were eager to attain the knowledge of the self, the liberation of the soul, and the fruits of their good deeds. || 212 ||