Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /176

OF CULTURE
 
GOVERNMENT
 
THE STORY OF PRAHLADA
 
कोन्वर्थतृष्णां विसृजेत् प्राणेभ्योऽपि य ईप्सितः

यं क्रीणात्यसुभिः प्रेष्ठैस्तस्करस्सेवको वणिक् ।
 
COM.
 
SL
 

"Who will renounce his desire for

wealth, wealth which one desires to pos-

sess more than life, wealth which the

thief, the servant and the merchant buy

with their dear life ?
 
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औपस्थ्यजैह्वव्यं बहुमन्यमानः

कथं विरज्येत दुरन्तमोहः ।

सर्वत्र तापत्रयदुःखितात्मा

निर्विद्यते न स्वकुटुम्बरामः ॥
 

" How shall he become detached, he

who esteems (only) the pleasures of sex

and the palate and is in an endless delu-

sion? Suffering with the threefold

miseries * allf around, he who delights in

his family never gets disgusted (with his

life).
 

 
'ततो विदूरात्परिहृत्य दैत्याः

दैत्येषु सङ्गं विषयात्मकेषु ।

उपेत नारायणमादिदेवं

स मुक्तसङ्गै रिषितोऽपवर्गः ॥
 

 
* Mental ills (Adhyatmika), physical ills (Adhi-

bhautika( and calamities caused by forces of Nature,

Fate and the gods (Adhidaivika).
 
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