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nor leave an ascetic devoted to pedancos. Neither the rich vor the poor escapes as when a consagration is ablaze in the forest.
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6. Whaterer Lody fate creates, the beauty of man is not stable there. The charming youth that grows, is cast out, no body knows where, by destiny. Whatever other qualities dwell in the body, it is not known which way they go. If the qualities of the body were stable, sages would not practise detachment from the world. Not stopping anywhere like the cars of an elephant, fortune vanishes under one's very eyes. As mercury held in the palm of the hand, oozes down, so a woman being dis-affected soon walks away. Whose eyebrows, eyes, words and gait are all crooked, who can make her upright ? She does not mind deserting her kingmen and friends; she is fickle and mean like the friendship of the wicked. Whoever meditates upon this idea of fickleness entertaining a feeling of detachment, becomes the ornament of the house of gods, having a very graceful and charming body.
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7. Resting at night and subduing the Scrus in battle, when the calamity comes and the heart goes to sleep, nothing in him throbs, rises or sits. Let him enter a cave, follow beaven, climb the learenly mountain, place his body in a cage, be fully guarded by his kinsmen, friends and children wielding lances in their hands, be protected by Mantras and be attended by a host of warriors, still he would not be saved by them all. Baladeva, the wielder of the disk, the leader of the gods, the Khecara in the sky, Yamna, Varuna, the supporter of the earth, none can afford shelter. Whoever contemplates in his mind, day after day, this idea of helplessness, graceful in body and enjoying pleasures, is soon courte: by the heavenly women.
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8. What bappiness is there for one revolving in the cycle of existence ? He gets various unpleasant woes. In hell he is tormented by many liellish beings with whom he contracted enmity of yore. There, he experiences great afflictions which can not be imagined by the mind. Being born amongst lower animals opposed to each other by birth, they have to undergo the gagging, piercing, beating, splitting of the body and the like. Even in humanity, a man, being suppressed, pines uneasily in his heart. Born
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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