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betrays passion (for worldly pleasures ), blended with an ingrained jealousy (of those who enjoy wealth while he cannot).
948. Is this also not love of pleasures, (prompted by which ) men give up their houses full of many frauds and deceipt and find delight in the innermost recesses of the forests abounding in perennial water-streams ?
949. Or rather, this is an (indirect ) way ( cleverly to disclose ) one's own nature or (to pour) censure on the (abject life of) service, when people go on praising the life of savage tribals staying in the vicinity of the Vindhyas.
950. (For them ) rivers with a variety of fauna, forests with clean (lawn) surfaces and mountains resounding with fights of elephants, enhance ( virallamti) their pleasure.
951. Although (now) pure in his behaviour, do not touch the wretched one. Evil stays (dormant) in him, carried over a long time.
952. What other man would entertain respect for those merits of the wretched ones, when even their own self shows aversion, ( caused by) a feeling of disgust for them ?
953. Indeed, his own beloved even withdraws herself from the man who has lost all his property. Does the night, with all her body (i. e. for all time ), unite with the moon, when not full (with digits )?
954. O heart, find solace (ạisammasu ) somewhere. How long would you torture ( yourself ), thus frustrated (āsāhao ) ? The miserable one-- ? better ( that this misery is ) for one (i, e. himself) only, and not for ( all on ) the whole earth.
955. Let this tall talk of uplifting the afflicted ( vihala ) cease. How is that (possible ) for the pygmies (aguru ) ? These fellows are not capable of bringing about their own welfare even !
956. How can they, with their hearts infatuated with stiff vanity for having secured wealth and a merit of some sort, remember ( bharihimti) other people, when even their own self forgets ( pamhusai ) them ?
957. As in their first acquaintence (pariaya), so (later also ) in the enjoyment (of their intimate association ), men are difficult
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