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Chagadashtisulsaya
"Oh Gods! This devotee servant! This Nandana garden! These Kalpa trees! This complete material of the five senses! Oh dear! I must leave all this behind now. When will I see this again?" Thus, filled with inner sorrow, he is immersed in the ocean of worry, and like the last six months, he spends his days in anxiety and restlessness. Thus, in the heavenly realms, life is often spent in pleasure, indulging in the enjoyment of the fruits of Dharma, and due to this corruption of form, the soul becomes devoid of its true purpose.
Let us leave aside the talk of these heavenly realms, and consider the state of human beings, who are directly visible. Even there, the same thing is evident. If we examine the inner life of a king who has attained the highest state of wealth and prosperity through intense merit, we find that he is so engrossed in worldly pleasures and royal concerns that he appears to be completely lost in enjoyment and fallen. He has no time for Dharma! He has no leisure! Not only that, but this great soul, who is lying on a bed of flowers, the burden of the kingdom, is hardly aware that there is something called Dharma in the world! He forgets the source of his good fortune, the very Dharma that has bestowed upon him this wealth and prosperity, and this ungrateful creature, this miserable being, indulges in pleasure and loses himself in it! Unhappy lies the head, that wears the crown.
The life of a king, etc., is a life of pleasure, or rather, it is a state of misery.
Consider a wealthy man, who is blessed with great wealth and possessions. He too is in the same state, because the comforts of his home, his garden, and his carriage, the servants who are always at his beck and call, the milk that is readily available when he asks for water, all these things lead him to a life filled with pleasure. Because he is entangled in the mire of his own wealth, his possessions, and his comforts, he is completely lost in them. He is so engrossed in enjoying the fleeting pleasures of this life, which are like the moonlight that lasts only for four days, that he has become completely oblivious to everything else. He is so eager to grab every pleasure that life has to offer, that he has become completely intoxicated by it. He is so lost in his wealth that he is unaware of the existence of Dharma in the world! He is so intoxicated by his wealth that he has become completely blind to everything else. He has applied the ointment of "Chittasthata" to his chest, and he is so arrogant that he thinks he is looking at the stars in the sky!
The wealthy are in the same state!