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Where there is constant mention of hatred towards one's opponents, even during the experience of happiness, there the mind is afflicted with sorrow, even when sitting peacefully at home. ||69||
Just as the burden does not actually decrease by transferring it from one shoulder to another, so too, the karmic impressions of sorrow are not truly eradicated by the enjoyment of the senses. ||70||
Happiness, sorrow, and delusion, these three are the activities of the Gunas. Although they are opposed to each other, they do not transcend the nature of sorrow, and therefore are sorrow-like. ||71||
All enjoyment arising from the senses is like the spread of a cobra's hood in anger. Even pleasurable enjoyment, like a beautiful painting, is a cause of fear for the discerning. ||72||