4 THE VAIRAGYA-SATAjKAM
we have made to dullards stultified by too much wealth; in what more fooleries would you have me dance, oh! Desire, thou of un- gratified yearning.
��5. What have we not endeavoured to do, with our depraved conscience, for the sake of our prams (five vital forces) which are un- reliable and compared to water on the leaves of lotus, since in presence of the rich, with their minds stupefied by the pride of wealth, we have shamelessly committed the sin of recounting our own merits 1
[ According to the scriptures, self-glorification is
tantamount even to the sin of suicide.]
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��& We have forgiVen, but not out of for-
(but out of our incapacity to right
ow wongs); we have renounced the comforts
life, but not out of contentment after
(bllt w aQ exije froffi home
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