राम
Abhanga 855Renunciation

That We Should Renounce It

English Translation · I.P. 855

ALOW man’s wisdom bids him worship his body, procuring wanton pleasure and sweet food. He calls it piety to tend his person; but what control has he over his body? It vanishes in a moment, before be is aware; he may swallow food, but he cannot control his body. Tamradhvaja sawed his body asunder, Sibi cut off his flesh; Suka and others retired to the forest. Tuka says, When Janaka ruled, he had one of his legs consumed by fire.

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

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Renunciation

The case for letting go of worldly attachments and turning wholly to God.

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