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All the objects, the body, the house, the wealth, the wife, the son, the friend, the enemy and the like are quite different in their nature from the soul; the foolish man, however, looks upon them as his own!
Note: The wise always perceive themselves as different from the objects of the world whose relations are transient and temporary and perish after a time. The Self, however, is unperishing and eternal, and will pass away, on death, into some other form of life, leaving his newly-formed relations of a transient phase of life, in the course of his eternal wandering career, mourning his loss Some times the relations depart plunging us in mourning. Hence, the acharya points out that the relations and, like them, the other objects which either leave us or are themselves left behind, on death, are all different from the Self in their nature, for otherwise they will always accompany the soul and cause it pleasure at all times and under all conditions.
दिग्देशेभ्यः खगा एत्य, संवसंति नगे नगे ।
स्वस्वकार्यवशाद्यान्ति, देशे दिक्षु प्रगे प्रगे ॥९॥
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The birds gather together to pass the night, on a tree, from various places in different directions in the evening; but at the earliest moment at the break of day they depart in the pursuit of their diverse purposes, for different places in all directions!
Note: The world is like a tree where the birds gather together to pass the night; in the morning they are gone. In the same way friends and relations are formed in this world, as if for the night; at the break of day we part company from them, each one going his own way! Who, then, but the foolish will suffer himself to be entangled with such 'roostingtime' ties?
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विराधकः कथं हन्त्रे जनाय परिकुप्यति ।
त्र्यङ्गुलंपातयन्पद्भयां, स्वयं दण्डेन पात्यते ॥ १०॥
Why should the evil-doer become angry with him who takes revenge on him? He who pulls down the trangura with both his feet is himself felled to the ground through its instrumentality! This is but just! It there~ fore, does not become one to get angry!
Note: The trangura is an instrument SO constructed that if a man holds it with both his hands and then tries with his feet to pull it down to the ground, it will overthrow him at once. The acharya likens the action of an evil-doer to the result of pulling down the trangura. The evil one
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