राम
Abhanga 334Worldly Life

Nothing is Gained by Works of Law or Austerities

English Translation · I.P. 334

WHEN I look for some means of escape, I see that my feet are entangled; I am caught, in such a strait that my intellect and force are reft away. The stores of my past actions have been mounting up from all time; I am held as in a cleft by rules and prohibitions, they are so compounded that I cannot disengage them. When I sweep them away, they increase again of themselves; I am tortured by the desires that pursue me. Tuka says, Now set me free; I am altogether feeble, O God!

Tr. J. Nelson Fraser & K.B. Marathe (1909)

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Worldly Life

The perplexities of action, karma, and navigating life in the world.

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