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ASHTAVAKRA SAMHITA
Sense-enjoyment and true happiness do not go
together. They are contradictory.]
कर्त्तव्यदुःखमार्तण्डज्वालादग्धान्तरात्मनः ।
कुतः प्रशमपीयूषधारासारमृते सुखम् ॥३॥
कर्त्तव्यदुःखमार्तण्डज्वालादग्धान्तरात्मन: Of one whose heart's
core has been scorched by the heat of the sun of
the sorrow of duty
without the
torrential shower of the ambrosia of tranquillity
कुत: how सुखं happiness ( स्यात् is ) .
3. How can one whose heart's core
has been scorched by the heat of the sun of
sorrow arising from duty, enjoy happiness
without the continuous shower of the
ambrosia of tranquillity??
[Whose etc.-Duty, as it is ordinarily under-
stood, is nothing but slavery in the form of virtue.
It is the morbid attachment of flesh for flesh, the
absurd greed for gold and gain or other worldly things
to which we feel attached. Only those who consider
the world as real, find that they have things to do,
duties to fulfil. The sense of duty, therefore, arises
ultimately from illusion. And it makes us stick to the
relative life, subjecting us to all the miseries of the
world. This scorches our innermost soul.
2 Tranquillity-When the Vrittis of the mind
have subsided-the mind has been freed of desires,
then the relative life loses its grip on us. We feel that
the world is ephemeral and we have nothing to do in
ASHTAVAKRA SAMHITA
Sense-enjoyment and true happiness do not go
together. They are contradictory.]
कर्त्तव्यदुःखमार्तण्डज्वालादग्धान्तरात्मनः ।
कुतः प्रशमपीयूषधारासारमृते सुखम् ॥३॥
कर्त्तव्यदुःखमार्तण्डज्वालादग्धान्तरात्मन: Of one whose heart's
core has been scorched by the heat of the sun of
the sorrow of duty
without the
torrential shower of the ambrosia of tranquillity
कुत: how सुखं happiness ( स्यात् is ) .
3. How can one whose heart's core
has been scorched by the heat of the sun of
sorrow arising from duty, enjoy happiness
without the continuous shower of the
ambrosia of tranquillity??
[Whose etc.-Duty, as it is ordinarily under-
stood, is nothing but slavery in the form of virtue.
It is the morbid attachment of flesh for flesh, the
absurd greed for gold and gain or other worldly things
to which we feel attached. Only those who consider
the world as real, find that they have things to do,
duties to fulfil. The sense of duty, therefore, arises
ultimately from illusion. And it makes us stick to the
relative life, subjecting us to all the miseries of the
world. This scorches our innermost soul.
2 Tranquillity-When the Vrittis of the mind
have subsided-the mind has been freed of desires,
then the relative life loses its grip on us. We feel that
the world is ephemeral and we have nothing to do in