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**Steadfast Vision: The Joyful Life of Gods and Others**
(49). As if emerging from the depths of the ocean of death, these gods instantly become youthful. Just as someone wakes up from a pleasant sleep, shaking off their drowsiness, these gods rise from their birth-bed, open their eyes, and behold the supremely delightful heavenly realm and its abundant treasures. They are filled with wonder and contemplate: "Oh! In the past, I practiced severe austerities in a distant land, and through compassion, I granted refuge to living beings. With a pure mind, I worshipped the fourfold path of vision, knowledge, conduct, and liberation, and I revered the omniscient Lord of the universe. I burned down the forest of worldly desires, vanquished the enemy of lust, cut down the trees of passions, and controlled the enemy of attachment. All this has had its effect, for today I have been rescued from misery and established in the divine heavenly kingdom."
"Every moment, new colors, songs of victory forever, red songs, a body without seven metals, beautiful and delightful, red. A body extremely delicate, wise and learned, red. Free from worldly anxieties and fears, peaceful like the night, red. The fruits of virtue bring happiness, the mind always rejoices, red. The land of the heavenly realm forever, happiness and virtues are embraced, red. The king of the gods, the conscious one, the cause is virtue, red. The cause, the completed austerities, the blessings of feet and charity, red. The desire of the devotee of Shiva, what he doesn't like, red. This is the destruction of happiness, count the sorrows, red."
–Sri Devchandraji's translation of Sri Jnanarnava. And then, with the happiness born of virtuous deeds, they enjoy the heavenly wealth they have obtained. There is such an abundance of pleasures of the five senses that they become completely immersed in them, engrossed in enjoyment, so much so that they are oblivious to anything else. Day and night, they spend their lives in pleasure! They don't even know where their time goes! Alas! Their long lifespan, as vast as countless oceans, also slips away like water, unnoticed! Only when six months of their lifespan remain do they feel the withering of their garland of flowers, their eyes begin to blink, their vision dims, and they realize: "Oh! My end is near. Alas! I have wasted my life in worldly pleasures and enjoyment: "This beautiful heavenly realm! These divinely beautiful celestial maidens! These supremely loving friends..."