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magnificence endure forever? Will this multitude of means yield you abiding peace?
Ay! Why do you forget: So often after one step of beatitude, it is dire distress that is just awaiting us. One moment later, it embraces us unforeseen and nobody knows where disappears all that multitude of means the instant it caresses us.
That fatal moment the dreamworld of happiness will be seared unto ashes; the world of longings shall be nullified. The mounts of misery will descend upon you, the world of ecstasy shall evaporate. The pinnacles of hope will fade away and the night of calamity will envelop you all around. Your vision shall fail to penetrate, neither will you feel in a position to pace one step ahead owing to overspreading darkness everywhere. All friends pandering to you will disappear, all colleagues communing with you shall withdraw. Only misery, unbounded misery, notwithstanding all your fidgetting, will be your one companion that moment! Hence, cast one peaceful glance at this fallen banyan-tree! Flinging off this deadening spell of munificence, reflect one moment with a sense of composure!
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