society, delightful the narratives in poetical literature, and delightful the face of the beloved swimming in the tear-drops of ( feigned ) anger . Everything is charming, but nothing is so when the mind is possessed by the evanescence of things.
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रम्यं हम्यंतलं न कि वसतये श्रव्यं न गेयादिकं |
80. Is not a palace pleasant to dwell in ? Is not music with its accompaniments agreeable to listen to? Is not the society of women, dear as life itself, very pleasing ? Yet, wise men have gone away to the forest, regarding these things as unstable as the shadow of a lamp's flame flickering through the puff of the wings of a deluded moth
[ भ्रान्त also has the meaning of hovering.' ]
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आसंसारात्त्रिभुवनमिदं चिन्वतां तात ताद्द- |
81. Oh dear ! in our quest through the three worlds from the very beginning of their creation, none such has come within sight or hearing, that
