object:19.11 - Old Age
book class:Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
author class:Nolini Kanta Gupta
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter
Punishment Of The Self
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta DhammapadaPaliOld Age
Old Age
[1]
Why this laughter? Why this merriment? When there is always this fire that consumes you are enveloped by darkness and you do not seek the light.
[2]
Look at this decorated image, the body full of sores, a heaped mass, diseased, full of vagaries with no stable status.
[3]
This form is decrepit, given to diseases, a mass of corruption, it breaks uplife ends in death.
[4]
What lure can there be at the sight of these bones white as dove-feather, that are thrown away like gourds in autumn.
[5]
A fortress has been made of bones and it is plastered with flesh and blood. Age and Death, pride and deceit are installed there.
[6]
Even the gaudy regal chariots wear out. Age reaches the body too. But Truth and Righteousness do not age; they are passed on from sage to sage.
[7]
A man with little knowledge grows old like an ox. His flesh increases, his intelligence does not.
[8]
The cycle of numberless births have I entered and I have not found the builder of this house, even though I have been out in search of him. The cycle of births is a misery!
[9]
I have found Thee, O Maker of the house! Thou wilt not build me a house again. All the beams are broken, the top dome has toppled down. The mind is freed of all its obscure innate movements: desires have ended.
[10]
If you have not led a life of self-control, if you have not acquired wealth in your youth, you will perish like an old heron in a pond emptied of fish.
[11]
If you have not led a life of self-control, if you have not acquired wealth in your youth, you will lie like a worn out bow lamenting over the past.
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Punishment Of The Self
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