Even though afflicted by misery, he does not cease further indulgence in those causes antecedent to it; just as a jackass pursues a she-ass even if kicked a hundred times by her, so also is it with the man and the world.
Saturday, September 14, 2019
— Tripura Rahasya, I: 82-84
— Confounding dispassion (vairagya) with misery, and the pleasures of the world with happiness (sukha), a man suffers in the cycle of births and deaths, while powerful ignorance prevails.
Even though afflicted by misery, he does not cease further indulgence in those causes antecedent to it; just as a jackass pursues a she-ass even if kicked a hundred times by her, so also is it with the man and the world.
Even though afflicted by misery, he does not cease further indulgence in those causes antecedent to it; just as a jackass pursues a she-ass even if kicked a hundred times by her, so also is it with the man and the world.
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