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viz. men, forsooth, say, 'these are the vessels of happiness. But this leads them to pain, to delusion, to death, to hell, to birth as bell-beings or brute beasts. The fool never knows the law. (3).
Thus spake the hero : Be careful against this great delusion; the clever one should have done with carelessness by considering death in tranquility, and that the nature of which is decay, viz. the body; these pleasures, look ! will not satisfy thee. Therefore have done with them! Sage, look! this is the great danger, it should overcome none whomsoever. He is called a hero who is not vexed by the hardships caused by control. He should not be angry because the householder gives him little. If turned off, he should go. Thou should comform to the conduct of the sages.' Thus I say. (4).
(Ayáramga, Vol. I, Chap. II, Lesson IV.)
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