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mind; whereupon Lakshmi (the goddess prosperity) alights, there perils find an open, access; death sure annexes to itself, sundering impotent very soon, whatever is born again and again. Then what is created stable by the absolute Creator?

��34. - Enjoyments are unstable like the breaking of high billows, life is liable to speedy dissolution; the buoyancy of youthful happiness centred in our objects of love lasts for few days. Understanding that the whole world is unsubstantial, ye wise teachers of men -'with minds intent on benefitting mankind (t>y living exemplary lives ) put forth your energies for attaining the (highest beatitude).

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��the benefitting (out of kindness) q-stf^ attached. 'The sense is that out of sympathy for suffering Tnankind, you shall by your exemplary lives and your counsels show men the way to cross the ocean of Samsara (world).

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