Prasamrati Prakarana

Author(s): Umaswati, Umaswami, Mahesh Bhogilal, V M Kulkarni
Publisher: Nita M Bhogilal & Others

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surely reaches the doors of death.
44. He, who gets gluttonous pleasure from the objects pleasing to the sense of taste - such as sweets and sweetmeats, sweet wines and liquors, the various delicious meats, rice, delicacies and sweet sauces - then, he, like the fish that gets caught into the net or by the hook, is surely killed.
45. The ignorant and deluded, whose intelligence is bewildered by the pleasures of the sense of touch - such as the smoothness of a bed decorated with pillows and covers, velvety chairs and sofas, the delights of the smooth and soft body of a woman, the tingling sensations of baths and massages - then, he, like the elephant, who has becorae mad with the desire to mate (and hence chases the she - elephant to the enclosures or excavations made for trapping him), is surely trapped.
46. Thus, those who do not have the right vision and who do not know the right conduct, - both of which wise men love - are, therefore under the control of their unruly senses. In such men, these, numerous defects occur often and often.
47. Being tortured by Rāga (attachment) and Dveşa (aversion) and by getting attached to only one of the senses, the deer and the others (mentioned in the earlier verses) are destroyed. Thus, what can one say of the indisciplined soul, who is tortured by being under the sway of all the five senses ?
48. There is not a single sense - object, which after experiencing again and again will completely satisfy the senses - which, since time immemorial, by being totally absorbed in numerous sense - objects, have become forever thirsty. (Instead, repeated indulgence makes the senses even more agitated).
49. In fact, even a good object becomes unpleasing to a person due to the concomitant changes taking place in oneself; similarly a bad object becomes pleasing after the passage of some time