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5. Sensual Pleasures.
8. B. E. 8. VOL. XXII, p. 21. Then after a time, he falls in sickness; those with whom he lives together, first grumble at him, and he afterwards grumbles at them. But they cannot help thee or protect thoe, nor canst thou help them or protect them. (1)
Knowing pleasure and pain separately', they trouble themselves about the enjoyment of the exe ternal objects. For some men in this world have such a character that they will desire to enjoy their portion, whether it be large or small in the three ways. Then, at one time, it will be sufficiently large, with many resources. Then, at another time, his heirs divide it, or those who have no living steal it, or the king takes it away, or it is ruined in some way or other, or it is consumed by the conflagration of the house. Thus a fool, doing cruel acts, comes ignorantly to grief. (2)
Wisely reject hope and desires, and extracting that thorn, d. e. pleasure, thou shouldst act rightly. People who are enveloped by delusion do not understand this : he who gathers wealth will, perhaps, not have the benefit of it.
The world is greatly troubled by women. They,
1. The meaning seems to be : If people do not know that pleasure and pain are the result of their own works, etc.
2. The commentators give no explanation of what is i meant by the three ways.'
3 आच बंदं च विनिच धीरे forms a triotubh pada.
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