राम
Abhanga 814Worldly Life

That We Should Make the Most of It

English Translation · I.P. 814

INEED not care for my body now; I will be satisfied to mete out the treasure I have. I will employ my sight on heavenly truth: I am wearied by worldly matter’s. Here there is nothing fit to take with us; there is nothing to spend our life on; all is false. In birth and re-birth there is no removal of pain; we are always wretched in the world. If sitting in a boat brings us to the end of our passage, who could weary himself by exerting his arms ? Tuka says, This is the sum of all> pass through the world like one sitting in a boat. 2 «() OUR ATTITQDK TOWARDS THE WORLD

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

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Worldly Life

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