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40. There Is one Enjoyment and one alone, lasting immutable and supreme, of xvhich the taste renders tasteless the greatest possessions such as the sovereignty of the three worlds, and established in which a Brahma, Indra or the gods (i. e. their posi- tions) appear like particles of grass. Do not, oh ! Sadhu, set your heart on any ephemera! enjoyment other than that,

��41, That lovely city, that grand monarch and that circle of feudatory kings at his side, that cabinet of shrewd counsellors of his and those beauties with moon-like faces, that group of princes in the heyday of youth, those court-minstrels and their songs of praise, all this fleeted away along the way of memory under whose power, to that Kftla (time or the principle of change) saluta- tion !

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