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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
but he was utterly dispaired when he found her attached to his horseman. He realised that the worldly relations are futile and he renounced the world. A man when engaged with a woman he loves, finds all happiness and pleasure in her, but when his affiance is transferred to some other woman, the former object of love, his wife, becomes the object of aversion. Thus man's view changes, which shows that worldly objects are not the source of real happiness and real pleasure.
The birth of a son is a festival day for the parents but the very son when grows young and grows impudent, impolite and disobedient, makes the parents very miserable and unhappy.
After remarriage with the second wife her son is dearer to the father than the son begotten from the first wife. How affiance with the same son waned!
So wealth, wife or son has no capacity to extend happiness but people simply imagine them as having such. Therefore the wisethinker has rightly called temporal happiness as illusory.
Worldly or temporal happiness is not lasting. It is momentary. How long does your joy continue when you suddenly gain a treasure of wealth? This slowly fades away with time. Even after a few days or hours your joy does not seem to have continued. Suppose you gain a million of rupees today but next year this joy almost perishes and that is why all the temporal happiness is momentary. All momentary happiness is futile and trifling.
Temporal happiness after which you strive and for which you toil day and night is the product of passion and prejudice. Contact of the cherished object makes you happy and its separation makes you unhappy and the contact of unwelcomed objects makes you unhappy and their separation makes you happy. But you do not enjoy any control over these contacts or separations. When you feel sure to make a million tomorrow, you might incur a heavy loss and when you dream of marrying a beautiful bride, you might hear her death-news. You try to avoid a disease still it embraces you fast. Who would welcome war, aggressions from the enemies, still they occur and you have to face them.
Remember, more you are attached, more the poignancy of the miseries you have to experience.
