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YASASTILAKA AND INDIAN CULTURE
Even when a man is stronger than an army, being protected by multitudes of kinsmen, millions of warriors, and trusty followers with all the resources of counsel, arms and troops, he is brought under the sway of Death by the latter's messengers — miserable and all alone ( 2. 113 ).
संसीदतस्तव न जातु समस्ति शास्ता त्वत्तः परः परमवाप्तसमप्रबोधेः । तस्यां स्थिते त्वयि यतो दुरितोपतापसेनेयमेव सुविधे विधुराश्रया स्यात् ॥
Good-natured one, once thou hast attained the full measure of Bodhi (right knowledge, conduct and faith), thou hast verily no protector other than thyself in thy ills. The army of Sins and Sufferings is helpless so long as thou art devoted to Bodhi ( 2 114 ).
3. SAMSARANUPREKṢA
(Thoughts on the Cycle of Transmigration) कर्मार्पितं क्रमगतिः पुरुषः शरीरमेकं त्यजत्यपरमाभजते भवान्धौ । शैलूषयोषिदिव संसृतिरेनमेषा नाना विडम्बयति चित्रकरैः प्रपञ्चैः ॥
In the ocean of existence, the transmigrating soul leaves one body, the result of Karma, and resorts to another. The cycle of existence, like an actress, deludes the soul with many a marvellous show ( 2. 115 ).
दैवाधिगतेषु पटुर्न कायः काये पटौ न पुनरायुरवाप्तवित्तम् ।
इथं परस्परहतात्मभिरात्मधर्मैर्लोकं सुदुःखयति जन्मकरः प्रबन्धः ॥ When by chance wealth is acquired, health is absent. When there is health, longevity attended by wealth is lacking. Thus the process of birth and rebirth inflicts misery on the world with its mutually contradictory attributes (2. 116).
आस्तां भवान्तरविधौ सुविपर्ययोऽयमत्रैव जन्मनि नृणामधरोच्चभावः ।
अल्पः पृथुः पृथुरपि क्षणतोऽल्प एव स्वामी भवत्यनुचरः स च तत्पदार्हः ॥
Let alone the mighty ups and downs in the births to follow; even in this life men are subject to rise and fall. The small becomes great and in a moment the great becomes small. The master becomes servant and the latter attains the former's rank (2. 117 ).
वैचित्रयमित्थमनुभूय भवाम्बुराशेरातङ्कवाडवविडम्बितजन्तुवारेः ।
को नाम जन्मविषपादप पुष्पकल्पैः स्वं मोहयेन्मृगदृशां कृतधीः कटाक्षैः ॥
Thus realising the varied moods of the ocean of existence, whose waters, to wit, the creatures, are oppressed by the submarine fire of deadly disease, what wise man will let himself be bewitched by fair women's glances that seem to be the flowers of the poison tree of life ? ( 2.118 )
4. EKATVĀNUPREKSA
(Thoughts on one's Loneliness ) एकस्वमाविशसि जन्मनि संक्षये च भोक्तुं स्वयं स्वकृतकर्मफलानुबन्धम् । अन्यो न जातु सुखदुःखविधौ सहायः स्वाजीवनाय मिलितं विटपेटकं ते ॥
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