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Abhanga 361Confession and Sin

The Sense of Sin

English Translation · I.P. 361

-^TOW I shall toil no more in this world of woe; JIN I shall go humbly to the saints and beg of them a place by their feet. I know of no merit of mine that has brought thy feet within my reach. Now, O mother, forget me not, I beseech thee with loud cries. I am harassed by the world. 1 am caught in the poisonous net of illusive desire. The three qualities of the world foam like venom at my mouth, and I am overwhelmed with misery. Why should I number other miseries ? Thewhole world is an eddy of misery. I cannot bear it; adamant would break beneath it; my soul is filled with trembling fear; I utterly shrink from the tale of this fetid world. I am changed from a sane man to a mad man. I turn to the infinite one, says Tuka. G IVE me, O God, a humble condition; for the ant finds a particle of sugar to eat. Airavata is a huge jewel, hut he has to endure the goad. Grandeur brings sharp torments. Tuka says, Enow that we ought to be smaller than the smallest of things.

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

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