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... Pleasure is like the lightning that flashes in the canopy of cloud ; life is like the fleeting clouds that are torn asunder by the storm ; the ardent desires of the young are transitory . O wise men ! you who know the uncer- tainty of ...
... Pleasure is like the lightning that flashes in the canopy of cloud ; life is like the fleeting clouds that are torn asunder by the storm ; the ardent desires of the young are transitory . O wise men ! you who know the uncer- tainty of ...
Page 47
... pleasure in things perishable . Be calm , O my heart ! 59. O my friend ! live on fruits and nuts , lie on the bare ... pleasures of sense which thou mayest gain from these things . If thou hast them not , then plunge , O my mind ! into ...
... pleasure in things perishable . Be calm , O my heart ! 59. O my friend ! live on fruits and nuts , lie on the bare ... pleasures of sense which thou mayest gain from these things . If thou hast them not , then plunge , O my mind ! into ...
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... pleasure ! Now , purifying myself with a vessel of leaves joined together , may I gain my livelihood by means of the barley grain which I have begged . 65. You were to me even as myself ; I was as yourself to you . Such were our ...
... pleasure ! Now , purifying myself with a vessel of leaves joined together , may I gain my livelihood by means of the barley grain which I have begged . 65. You were to me even as myself ; I was as yourself to you . Such were our ...
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... pleasure in the enjoyment which comes from flattery , dress , or feasting ; for the only delight which is supreme is everlasting , and continually grows . Seize upon it , for , compared to the sweetness of that , all the three worlds ...
... pleasure in the enjoyment which comes from flattery , dress , or feasting ; for the only delight which is supreme is everlasting , and continually grows . Seize upon it , for , compared to the sweetness of that , all the three worlds ...
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... pleasure in the world endures . but a lightning - flash through the heavens ; the embraces of your beloved whom you clasp to your breast will not be for long . Direct your thoughts to the Supreme Being ; for you must cross the sea of ...
... pleasure in the world endures . but a lightning - flash through the heavens ; the embraces of your beloved whom you clasp to your breast will not be for long . Direct your thoughts to the Supreme Being ; for you must cross the sea of ...
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ascetic Author Bengal Bhartrihari Book Buddhist C. M. Ingleby Cambridge Chinese cloth College Compiled containing Crown 8vo Demy 8vo desire DICTIONARY earth Edward Edwin Arnold elephant English and Foreign enlarged ESSAYS evil F. W. Newman Fcap Foreign Philosophical Library French gained Geology German GRAMMAR Henry Hindu History Illustrations Imperial Index India Introduction James John John Dowson king LANGUAGE late Lectures Literature live LL.D London Max Müller mind Modern Müller Nîti Notes Original Oxford paper Ph.D PHILOSOPHY Plates pleasure Poems POETRY Post 8vo Post free Professor of Sanskrit RALPH T. H. GRIFFITH RELIGION Revised Royal 8vo Samuel Butler Sanskrit Second Edition sewed Śiva sloka Small 4to Society Svarga Telang Text Third Edition Thomas thou tion Translated Trübner's Collection Trübner's Oriental Series University Vairagya Verse viii virtues Vocabulary volume W. R. Greg W. W. Hunter William wise words wrapper