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I consider the impermanence of possessions, lifespan, time, and wealth to be a kind of virtue, because if these were all permanent, how could liberation be attained? And without liberation, how could there be happiness? || 204 || Those who are like enemies, first generating faith and then stealing life and wealth, bring misfortune to everyone. || 205 || The happiness derived from these objects is merely the greatness of suffering, because the bitterness of a bitter gourd is merely the effect of hunger. || 206 || This being, satisfied with imagined pleasures, is turned away from the true happiness born of the Self, and is like a monkey content with the warmth of a firefly. || 207 || This being is constantly experiencing decay, but without the absence of bondage, it cannot be the cause of liberation. The absence of bondage can be achieved by destroying the causes of bondage, therefore I strive to destroy the causes of bondage. || 208 || In this ocean of existence, those who are grasped by the demons of attachment, how can they attain liberation? How can they live? Where can they find happiness? And where can they find wisdom? || 209 || Even knowing the impermanence of things, wise people, struck down by the arrows of Lakshmi's glance, doubt, "Is this being destined for liberation or not?" || 210 || This tree of the body, surrounded by the vines of women, will grow old in the forest of existence and be consumed by the fire of time. || 211 || If I have experienced such happiness from a single particle of karma, contaminated by the poison of its cause, then what happiness will I experience by immersing myself in the ocean of Dharma-amrita? || 212 ||
The causes of bondage are: wrong belief, non-restraint, carelessness, passions, and karma.