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 OR THE HUNDRED VERSES ON RENUNCIATION 13

understood is this, namely that worldly happiness is but the temporary remedy we constantly seek from all the diseases with which worldly life is beset. When this relative and fugitive nature of happiness becomes apparent to us, we naturally give up running after it to seek permanent peace in renunciation.

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��20. Possessed of tall mansions,, of sons esteemed by the learned, of untold wealth, of a beloved wife full of beneficence, and of youthful age, and thinking this world to be permanent, men deluded by ignorance run into this prison-house of worldliness ; whereas, he is blessed indeed who considering the transiency of the same world renounces it.

��21. If one had no occasion to see one's wife suffering without food and sore ag- grieved at the constaat sight of hungry crying

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