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All kinds of (worldly) prosperities of mortals are of the nature of changing every moment, cause of untold misery and all unions ending in separation.18 12 1.
भोगसुखैः किमनित्यैर्भयवहुलै: काङ्क्षितैः परायत्तैः ।
नित्यमभयमात्मस्थं प्रशमसुखं तत्र यतितव्यम् ।।१२२।। .. What is the use of sense-object enjoyments which are transcient, dreadful, desired (again and again) and which arë dependent (on external objects) ? In this matter, therefore, an attempt should be
that this ghost should be taught a lesson. He ordered the ghost to dig long bamboo in the ground and asked it to ascend and descend until he gave the next order. While doing so the ghost became tired and accepted its defeat and requested the merchant to release him. It also promised him to come for help whenever the merchant remembered. The lesson of the story is that a monk constantly engage himself in performing religious duties, so that he would have
no time to think about wordly matters. 17. A young beautiful lady of a rich merchant family, whose husband
was in a foreign country for merchandise, had no work to do at home because her mother-in-law was looking after household responsibilities. It is rightly said that 'Idle Mind is shelter for ghost of ideas...'. This idle young lady asked her girl friend to bring a handsome young man for her compiny. But her girl friend was very good in nature and truly a well-wisher of her friend. She secretly informed this bad intention of her friend to her father-in-law to save her friend from family destruction. In turn the father-in-law of her friend asked his wife to engage the daughter-in-law in household duties. Being completely engaged in maintaining household works, that young daughter-in-law was hardly getting any time even to sleep. She completely forgot about having company of a young man. The story tells that if a monk should constantly engages self in performing religious duties, he would not be disturbed by any
worldly thought. 18. Sarve kṣayāatā nicayah patanäntä samucchrayāḥ. . Samyogāh viprayogantīḥ maraṇāntam ca jīvitam.
Rāmāyaṇa-Ayodhyākānda-105. 16.
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