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OF CULTURE
 
SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 
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"Demons! as misery comes to men

without their effort for it, so also the

pleasure of the senses is available for

all beings by destiny and by the mere

reason of their having taken a body.

(Therefore) one should not strain oneself

for its sake; for, by doing so, only life

ebbs away.
 
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पुंसो वर्षशतं ह्यायुस्तदर्धं चाजितात्मनः ।

मुग्धस्य बाल्ये कौमारे क्रीडतो याति विंशतिः ।

जरया प्रस्तदेहस्य यात्यकल्पस्य विंशतिः ॥

दुरापूरेण कामेन मोहेन च बलीयसा ।

शेषं गृहेषु सक्तस्य प्रमत्तस्यापयाति हि ॥
 

"A hundred years form a man's life;

the man who has no self.possession has

but half of that. Twenty years pass

away for the fool in his sports of child-

hood and boyhood and a score (more)

pass away as he remains inefficient for

any work, his body being in the grip of

old age,
The rest (also) passes away for

the careless man who is engrossed in

domestic life in his insatiable desires and

strong infatuations.