Prashamrati Verses 40 to 57

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Vol. II/No. 3. Eternal Wisdom 45. The ignorant and deluded (HC), whose intelligence is bewildered by the pleasures of the sense of touch - such as the smoothness of a bed decorated with pillows and covers, velvety chairs and sofas, the delights of the smooth and soft body of a woman, the tingling sensations of baths and massages - then, he, like the elephant, who has become mad with the desire to mate (and hence chases the she - elephant to the enclosures or excavations made for trapping him), is surely trapped. 46. Thus, those who do not have the right vision (efce) and who do not know the right conduct ( 962T), - both of which wise men love - are, therefore under the control of their unruly senses. In such men, these, numerous defects occur often and often. 47. Being tortured by Raga ( 175 - attachment) and Dwesha (ao - aversion) and by getting attached to only one of the senses, the deer and the others (mentioned in the earlier verses) are destroyed. Thus, what can one say of the indisciplined soul, who is tortured by being under the sway of all the five senses? 48. There is not a single sense - object (faqe), which after experiencing again and again and again will completely satisfy the senses - which, since time immemorial, by being totally absorbed in numerous sense - objects, have become forever thirsty. (Instead, repeated indulgence makes the senses even more agitated). 49. In fact, even "a good object ( faqe) becomes unpleasing ( TE) to a person due to the concominant changes taking place in oneself; similarly, a bad object ( 373H faq7) becomes pleasing (SE) after the passage of some time. (e.g. The sweet sounds of music that become unpleasing as one becomes hungry and when hunger is satiated they again become pleasing).