Ore Mana Bhalonahi Lage E Samsar
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O my heart, this material world is not good. It is filled with birth, old-age, and death. What is the good in it? Tell me.
No one can keep his wealth, kinsmen, and followers. When times are good, there are friends. When times are bad, the friends become strangers. O my brother, I would like to keep them always friends, but they will not stay. Everything is temporary. It will all perish.
This life is only a few days. Soon it is gone. Then one sees death approach. The sufferings of disease do not stop. The mind becomes burned to ashes. Friends and kinsmen flee. Everything is a calamity.
O my brother, look. There is no material pleasure that is not mixed with pain. Every material pleasure will become the cause of pain also. Why, then, have you become Māyā's slave? You have robbed yourself of the greatest treasure.
Look, think in your heart about the Purāṇa history-books. How many demons committed how many terrible sins to please their senses? In the end they all met with death.
At the moment of death he is defeated. Then he burns in a fire of remorse. He laments, "Alas! I passed my life like a dog or a beast. I never thought about the greatest treasure."
O my heart, why are you stunned by sense pleasures. Renounce, renounce the desire for material pleasures. Take shelter of my spiritual master's feet and you will conquer this world of birth and death. This servant is certain of that.