from women. (Then) oh me, say if there is a
particle of happiness in the world.
[The idea is that none of the stages of life, beginning rom the embryo, are worth living. as they are attended with serious drawbacks.]
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व्याघ्रीव तिष्ठति जरा परितर्जयन्ती |
38. Old age loons (ahead} frightening men like a tigress ; (different) diseases afflict the (human) body like enemies; life is flowing away like water running out of a leaky vessel ; still, how wonderful, that mat goes on doing wicked deeds !
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भोगा भंगुरवृत्तयो बहुविधतैरेव चायं भव- |
39. Manifold and transitory in nature are the enjoyments and of such is this world made up. So what for would you wander about here, O men ? Cease exerting yourselves (for them); and if you put faith in our word, on its Supreme Foundation (lit, abode) concentrate your mind,
