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**Meaning:** The belly (middle part) of this ocean of worldly pleasures is filled with the water of birth, old age, and death, which arises from the karmas of each and every being. It is adorned with the great whirlpool of attachment, terrifying like the fire of lust, filled with the great wind of desires (aspirations), and tossed about by the pitchers of passions. It bears the violent wave cycle of wrong views, and is insurmountable due to the increase of the stream of sensory desires (strong tides of desires for objects of senses like sound, etc.) in the heart. It has a lineage (offspring) of vines in the form of prayers, and is filled with sorrow.
Where there is the dark day of ignorance, frightening due to the falling of lightning in the form of calamities, shaking the heart with the storm of the well-like wind, filled with various fish, turtles, etc. in the form of diseases, and is inaccessible due to the moving mountains of fickleness, emptiness, and pride, one should contemplate this ocean of the world. || 41-42-43-44-45 ||
The means of crossing it is the firm bond of right faith, adorned with many virtues and accompanied by the knowledge of liberation. || 46 ||
The leak of the inflow of karma is stopped by the practice of restraint, which is secret and guarded on all sides. The two shores of this ocean are the platform of conduct, illuminated by the lamp of right conduct, and the renunciation of blame. || 47 ||
This ocean is difficult to cross, with countless, insurmountable, and difficult-to-bear waves of desires. It is supported by the well of right effort, and its peak is adorned with the white cloth of the soul. || 48 ||
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