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Rh thy children is unbecoming. Moreover, it behoveth thee not to grieve for that which is to be: for who can avert, by his wisdom, the decrees of fate? No one can leave the way marked out for him by Providence. Existence and pleasure and pain, all have Time for their root. Time createth all things and Time destroyeth all creatures. It is Time that burneth creatures and it is Time that extinguisheth the fire. All states, the good and the evil, in the three worlds, are caused by Time. Time cutteth short all things and createth them anew. Time alone is awake when all things are asleep: indeed, Time is incapable of being overcome. Time passeth over all things without being retarded. Knowing as thou dost that all things past and future and all that exist at the present moment, are the offsprings of Time, it behoveth thee not to abandon thy reason.

Sauti said:—"The son of Gavalgani, having in this manner administered comfort to the royal overwhelmed with grief for his sons, then restored his mind to peace. Taking these facts for his subject, Dwaipayana composed a holy Upanishad that has been published to the world by learned and sacred bards in the Puranas composed by them.

"The study of the Bharata is an act of piety. He that readeth even one foot, believing, hath his sins entirely purged away. Herein Devas, Devarshis, and immaculate Brahmarshis of good deeds, have been spoken of; and likewise Yakhas and great Uragas (Nagas). Herein also hath been described the eternal Vāsudeva possessing the six attributes. He is the true and just, the pure and holy, the eternal Brahma, the supreme soul, the true and constant light, whose divine deeds wise and learned men recount; from whom hath proceeded the and  universe with principles of generation and progression, and birth, death, and  That also hath been treated of which is called Adhyatma (the superintending spirit of nature) that partaketh the attributes of the five elements. That also hath been described who is purusha being above such epithets as 'undisplayed' and the like; also that which the first of yotis exempt from the common destiny and endued with the power of meditation