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## Forty-Seventh Chapter
466. This life is like the wind, pleasures are like clouds, association is fleeting, the body is a vessel of sin, and worldly possessions are as fickle as lightning. ||236||
Youth is a dense forest, leading to the path of delusion. The pleasure that one finds in worldly objects is actually a search for misery. ||237||
All these things seem pleasurable as long as the mind is deluded. But when the mind becomes pure, what is there to abandon except these things? ||238||
If the tree of the mind keeps growing with the shoots of poisonous desires, how can it bear the fruits of happiness in the branches of sensual pleasures? ||239||
I have enjoyed all kinds of pleasures for a long time, but I have never found even a little bit of satisfaction in this world that could destroy my thirst. ||240||
Even if all the objects of our desires were to be fulfilled, they would not bring us even a little bit of happiness. ||241||
It is said that the attainment of pleasure from women is the mark of manhood. But what greater degradation can there be than this? Therefore, one should become a true man by realizing the true happiness within oneself. ||242||
Thus, abandoning the crookedness of his mind, Sri Pal Chakravarti decided to renounce all his possessions, including his royal wheel. ||243||
Then, he crowned his son, Sukhavati, who was named Narapal, on his high throne. He himself, along with his queens like Jayavati and kings like Vasupal, took the vows of renunciation. ||244-245||
... He practiced both external and internal austerities, climbed the ladder of penance, and, within a month, destroyed his delusion. ||256||
Having attained the excellent character known as "Yathakyata," which is free from impurities, he meditated on the true nature of the self through the second white meditation, which is devoid of all thoughts. ||247||
In the same way, the Chakravarti rotates his wheel (Chakra Ratna) and earns his livelihood from the gems and other things that are born from the earth. Therefore, his kingdom is to be condemned. ||235||