Bhavana Sataka

Author(s): A S Gopani, Dharmshila Mahasati, Girishkumar P Shah Pandit
Publisher: Labhubhai P Mehta

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गृहे यस्मिन् गानं पणवलयतानं प्रतिदिनं, कदाचित्तत्र स्याधुवसुतमृतौ रोदनमहो । क्षणं दिव्यं भोज्यं मिलति च पुनस्तुच्छमपि नो, न दृष्टं संसारे क्वचिदपि सुखं दुःखरहितम् ॥२३॥
Meaning :- The house in which the song of the songster is one day heard, in which the lute, the flute and the tabors are being played upon, and in which merry-making is going on for the whole day and the night, becomes the other day a seat, a receptacle, an abode of heart-rending lamentations and bewailings consequent upon the untimely death of the only young son. The house in which dainty dishes and sumptuous dinners were prepared and eaten is at once turned the very next day into a house where no breads of rotten milo or leaves of stinking millet or the foul-smelling gruel even is available. A prince of today is soon turned into a pauper of tomorrow. Thus, is happiness, an everlasting happiness a thing that can be purchased by money ? Not at all. In this world, no such happiness is obtainable as is entirely unadulterated with misery and pain. Some have got some type of unhappiness, while the others have other type of it. In short there is unhappiness here, there, and everywhere in this world. (23)
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