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SPIRITUAL LIGHT.
the meshes of Karma. Even good actions, done, with the desire of fruits, hovewer high, noble and sympathising they may be, they are sure, even then, to forge golden fetters for them. Rare are the persons whose actions proceed from selfish motives and tendencies. They are capable of holding equanimity in all circumstances of life, whether, untoward or favourable. With all these considerations before their minds, the wise view' things from the noumenal standpoint and break this attractive and ornamental: chain of worldliness and bring on the glory of disattachment. The author, therefore, rightly advises those, who are immersed in the ocean of worldliness, to work by honest means, unswervingly righteous pātience and selfless devotion.
Cf-V. 44.
Experience tells me that my past enjoyments have brought no real felicity, and sensation assures me that those I have felt are stronger than those which are yet to come. Yet experience and sensation in vain persuade; hope, more powerful than either, dresses out the distant prospect in fancied beauty; some happiness in long perspective, still beckons mo to pursue; and, like a losing gamester, every new disappointment increases my ardour to continue the game.-Gems of Prose. દષ્ટિને વિપર્યય
સંસારના પ્રપંચમાં દુઃખ સિવાય સુખને કંઇ લેશ પણ જણને નથી, એમ છતાં પણ મૂઢદષ્ટિવાળાએ વિષય-પ્રસંગને સુખરૂપ સમજે
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