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sons at ths head of your house, and after you have enjoyed life together with your wives, then you may depart to the woods as praiseworthy sages." (9).
45, 46. The young men perceiving that the Purohita was wholly consumed, as it were, by the fire of grief, which was fed by his individual inclinations and blown into a huge flan, by the wind of delusion ; that he suffered much and talked a great deal in many ways ; that he tried to persuade them by degrees, and that he would even bribe them with money and with objects of desire spoke these words: 10, 11)..
47. “The study of the Vedas will not save you, the feeding of Brahmaņas will lead you from darkness to darkness, and the birth of sons will not save you. Who will assent to what you said ? (12).
48. “Pleasures bring only a moment's happiness, but suffering for a very long time, intense suffering, but slight hapiness ; they are an obstacle to the liberation from existence, and are a very: mine of evils. (13)
49. “While a man walks about without abandon. ing pleasures, and grieves day and night, while he is anxious about other people, and seeks for wealth, he comes to old age and death. (14).
50. “I have this, and I have not that; I must do this, and I should not do that! While he talks in this strain, the robbers (viz. time) drag him away. What foolishness is this !” (15).
51. Great wealth and women, a family and
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