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at these men shining bright in their merits (To[FF75) ? She will find it difficult to favour them with pleasing eyes; but she will not be averse to them. Cf. forti feratan a safer i ostrarafhरोपहतनयनतया । एवं सत्यपि तया पूर्वमेव दुष्टदैत्यादित्यागेन गुणवत्येव भगवति नारायणे वसतिः कृता। तेन गुणवत्पक्षपातोऽस्याः स्फुट एव ।
934. At the pompous celebration of wealth (Lakşmi), though newly acquired (96#fęg3T), she (Laksmi) runs away (faqmis) from him. Finding himself suddenly rich for the first time, he is tempted to make a vulgar demonstration of his wealth, spending lavishly on ceremonial celebrations, like marriages of his sons and daughters, as a result on which he soon becomes a pauper once again. Then becoming bankrupt, howsoever he may try and implore (TC4UTT) the goddess, it does not happen (#955) that he gets once more another instalment (STOUTT) of wealth and becomes rich again.
935. What is happiness? It certainly is not negative in the sense that no unhappiness ( 4:19) is happiness. It is not also the worldly pleasures, which we enjoy for a time, but which bring pain and unhappiness afterwards. Happiness which, therefore, does not depend on these material pleasures of the senses ( TOT Jers), is the real, ever-lasting happiness of the heart and the soul.
936. Deeper the addiction of man for pleasures of the senses (TEFTTTTT), such as wine and women, more poignant (CTEUTTT) is the grief and agony thereof, whether he gets them or not. The illustration given is that of light and shadow : brighter the light (377673T), deeper (as of the shadow.
937. Pleasures of the senses continue to haunt the mind, even though with full concentration (para) it is dragged away from them. The illustration is that of the internal sound (77) which is to be heard inside the ears, though they are closed with fi
h fingers (infas fofa31) to keep away other sounds.
938. In the case of great men, their sufferings even give pleasure to their hearts, like poetic compositions (TOT), full of Pathos (fagoufeTTS), which delight the hearts of poets.
939. In this endless (furTqHT) path of worldly migration (FACE), wise men look up to their present houses ( 1) as
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