राम
Abhanga 833Worldly Life

That We Should Make the Most of It

English Translation · I.P. 833

HE holds lightly at all times the place of Brahma, whose treasure is still Hari’s name. The joys of Indra’s heaven he counts not joy, but a sickness of mortality. The empire of the worldi THE WORLD is useless to him; he esteems the sovereignty of hell an evil; he counts the height of mystic power as nothing, and the joy of liberation as sorrow. Tuka says, Away from Hari he deems all life wretched.

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

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Worldly Life

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