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Two-sightedness: Salty water of untruth, sweet water of truth.
(251) In this ocean of existence, where the four states of existence are constantly revolving and the fire of suffering is burning, the creatures are wandering endlessly. This machine-bearing being, abandoning one form and taking on another, is constantly assuming new roles like actors on a stage, dancing the drama of this world. This world is filled with suffering through the five types of transformations: matter, space, time, existence, and emotions. This being, wandering since time immemorial, has experienced all relationships with all beings in the three stationary realms. There is not a single realm, not a single form, not a single country, not a single family, not a single suffering, not a single happiness, not a single state of existence where this being has not wandered and been fragmented.
“In this strange world, gods fall and dogs ascend to heaven! A learned Brahmin becomes a worm, and a worm or a dog becomes Indra! A king becomes a worm, and a worm becomes Indra! Thus, by the force of karma, beings are transformed! Oh! In this uneven world, a mother dies and becomes a daughter! A sister becomes a woman! That woman is reborn as a daughter! A father is born as a son! That son dies and becomes a grandson!” Thus, this world is truly impermanent, insecure, full of suffering, strange, and uneven. Despise this world! Despise it! - Thus, this wise and detached man thinks. So, what is surprising that he finds the whole world distasteful? And therefore, rising above it, becoming detached, he strives to abandon the salty waters of this ocean of existence. What is surprising about that?
Furthermore, what is untruthful is also like salty water. Since time immemorial, this being has drunk the salty water of untruth, so the seed of truth has not been planted in its heart. Because the untruthful is tainted by false beliefs, as long as the being continues to hear the untruthful, how can it develop the right understanding? This being has not left anything out in hearing the salty water, but it has not…
*"चतुर्गतिमहावत्त दुःखवाडवदीपिते । भ्रमन्ति भविनोऽजस्रं वराका जन्मसागरे । रूपाण्येकानि गृह्णाति त्यजत्यन्यानि सन्ततम् । यथा रङ्गेऽत्र शैलूषस्तथायं यन्त्रबाहकः ॥ सर्वैः सर्वेऽपि संम्बन्धा संप्राप्ता देहधारिभिः । अनादिकालसंभ्रान्तैस्त्रसस्थावरयोनिषु ॥ भूपः कृमिभवत्यत्र कृमिश्वामरनायकः । शरीरी परिवर्तत कर्मणा वञ्चितो बलात् ॥ माता पुत्री स्वसा भार्या सैव संपद्यतेऽङ्गजा । पिता पुत्रः पुनः सोऽपि लभते पौत्रिकं पदं ॥”
–from Shri Jnanarnava by Shubhachandracharya.