THE HUNDRED VERSES ON RENUNCIATION
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��13. Ah! it must be indeed a difficult feat which persons, with their minds purified by the discrimination arising from knowledge of Brahman, accomplish, in that, free from desire, they wholly discard that wealth which has been actually bringing them enjoyment ; whereas we fail to renounce enjoyments which are reaped by us as mere longings and which we never did realise in the past, nor do we realise now, nor can we count upon as lasting when obtained (in future ).
��14. Blessed are those who live in mountain caves meditating on Brahman, the Supreme Light, while birds devoid of fear perch on their laps and drink the tear-drops of bliss (that they shed in meditation) ; while our life is fast ebbing away in the excitement of revelry in palatial mansions or on the banks of refreshing pools or in pleasure-gardens, all created (and brooded over) merely by imagi* nation I
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