Pranam
Universal old age in VY (sanskrit is also available)
VASISHTA YOGA Book 1 Chapter 28 - Mutability of the world
*Rama said**:—*
śrīrāma uvāca | yaccedaṃ dṛśyate kiṃcijjagatsthāvarajaṃgamam |
tatsarvamasthiraṃ brahmansvapnasaṃgamasaṃnibh 1. Whatever we see of all
moveable or immovable things in this world, they are all as evanescent as
things viewed in a dream. 2. The hollow desert that appears as the dried
bed of a sea to-day, will be found to-morrow to be a running flood by the
accumulation of rain-water in it.3.What is to-day a mountain reaching the
sky and with extensive forests on it, is in course of time levelled to the
ground, and is afterwards dug into pit.4 The body that is clothed to-day
with garments of silk <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/silk#history>,
and decorated with garlands and fragrance, is to be cast away naked into a
ditch to-morrow. 5 What is seen to be a city to-day, and busy with the
bustle of various occupations, passes in course of a few days into the
condition of an uninhabited wilderness. 6 The man who is very powerful
to-day and presides over principalities, is reduced in a few days to a heap
of ashes. 7 The very forest which is so formidable to-day and appears as
blue as the azure skies, turns to be a city in the course of time, with its
banners hoisted in the air. { yā latāvalitā bhīmā bhātyadya vipināvalī |
divasaireva sā yāti punarmarumahīpadam || 8 ||} 8 What is (to-day) a
formidable jungle of thick forests, turns in time to be a table-land as on
the mount Meru <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/mount-meru#hinduism>.
{ NATURE CAN REFURBISH}. 9 Water becomes land and land becomes water. Thus
the world composed of wood, grass and water becomes otherwise with all its
contents in course of time. 10. Our boyhood and youth, bodies and
possessions are all but transient things, and they change from one state to
another, as the ever fluctuating waves of the ocean.
11.Our lives in this (mortal) world, are as unsteady as the flame of
a lamp placed at the window, and the splendour of all the objects in the
three worlds, is as flickering as the flashing of the lightning. 12. As a
granary stored with heaps of grains is exhausted by its continued waste, so
is the stock of life spent away by its repeated respirations. 13. The mind
of man is as fluctuating as a flag waving in the air and filled with the
dust of sin, to indicate its wavering between the paths of heaven and
hell. 14. The existence of this delusive world, is as the appearance of an
actress on the stage, shuffling her vests as she trudges along in her
dancing. 15. It's scenes are as changeful and fascinating as those of a
magic city; and its dealings as bewitching and momentary as the glances of
a giggling girl. { taḍittaralamālokamātanvānā punaḥpunaḥ |
saṃsāraracanā rājannṛttasakteva rājate ||} *16. The stage of the world
presents us a scene of continued dancing (of the sorceress of deception),
and the deceptive glances of her eyes resembling the fleeting flashes of
lightning.* 17. The days, the great men, their hey-days and deeds (that are
past and gone), are now retained in our memory only, and such must be our
cases also in a short time. 18. Many things are going to decay and many
coming anew day by day; and there is yet no end of this accursed course of
events in this ever-changeful world. {tiryaktvaṃ puruṣā yānti tiryañco
naratāmapi |
devāścādevatāṃ yānti kimiveha vibho sthiram ||} 19 |19. Men degenerate into
lower animals, and those again rise to humanity (by metempsychosis), gods
become no-gods, and there is nothing that remains the same. { EGG MAY BE
ANY SPECIE NOT AGAIN HUMAN}. 20. The sun displays every thing to light by
his rays, and watches over the rotations of days and nights, to witness
like time the dissolution of all things.
21. The gods Brahma
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/brahma#purana>, Vishnu
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/vishnu#purana> and Siva
<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/shiva#purana> and all material
productions, are reduced to nothingness, like the submarine fire subsiding
under the waters of the deep. 22.The heaven, the earth, the air, the sky,
the mountains, the rivers, and all the quarters of the globe, are subject
to destruction like the dry fuel by the all-destroying fire of the last
day. 23.Riches and relatives, friends, servants and affluence, are of no
pleasure to him who is in constant dread of death. 24.All these are so
long delightful to a sensible man, as the monster of death does not appear
before the eye of his mind.
{ kṣaṇamaiśvaryamāyāti kṣaṇameti daridratām |
kṣaṇaṃ vigatarogatvaṃ kṣaṇamāgatarogatām || 25 ||
pratikṣaṇaviparyāsadāyinā nihatātmanā |
jagadbhrameṇa ke nāma dhīmanto hi na mohitāḥ || 26 ||
tamaḥpaṅkasamālabdhaṃ kṣaṇamākāśamaṇḍalam |
kṣaṇa kanakaniṣyandakomalālokasundaram || 27 ||}
25. We have prosperity at one moment, succeeded by adversity at another; so
we have health at one time, followed by sickness soon after. 26. What
intelligent being is there, that is not misled by these delusions of the
world, which represent things otherwise than what they are, and serve to
bewilder the mind? 27. (The world is as varying) as the face of the skies;
it is now as black as dark clay, and in the next moment bright with the
golden hues of fair light. 28. It is now over-cast by azure clouds
resembling the blue lotuses of the lake, and roaring loudly for a time and
then being dumb and silent on a sudden: 29. Now studded with stars, and
now glowing with the glory of the sun;then graced by the pleasant
moonbeams, and at last without any light at all.
30. Who is there so sedate and firm, that is not terrified at these
sudden appearances and their disappearance, and the momentary durations and
final dissolution of worldly things? 31. What is the nature of this world,
where we are overtaken by adversity at one moment, and elated by prosperity
at another, where one is born at a time, and dies away at another?
{prāgāsīdanya
eveha jātastvanyo naro dinaiḥ |
sadaikarūpaṃ bhagavankiṃcidasti na susthiram || 32 ||} 32. One that was
something else before, is born as a man in this life, and is changed to
another state in course of a few days; thus there is no being that remains
steadily in the same state. 33. A pot is made of clay, and cloth is made
of cotton <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/cotton#history>, and they
are still the same dull materials of which they are composed: thus there is
nothing new in this world that was not seen or known before, and that
changes not its form. (*i. e. *all is but a formal and no material
change). 34. The acts of creation and destruction, of diffusion,
production, and sustentation follow one another, as the revolution of day
and night to man. 35 It happens sometimes, that an impotent man slays a
hero, and that hundreds are killed by one individual; so also a commoner
becomes a noble man, and thus every thing is changeful in this varying
world. 36. These bodies of men that are always changing their states, are
as bodies of waters rising and falling in waves by motion of the winds.
37. Boyhood lasts but a few days, and then it is succeeded by youth which
is as quickly followed by old age: thus there being no identity of the same
person, how can one rely on the uniformity of external objects? 38. The
mind that gets delighted in a moment and becomes dejected in the next, and
assumes likewise its equanimity at another, is indeed as changeful as an
actor. 39. The creator who is ever turning one thing into another in his
work of creation, is like a child who makes and breaks his doll without
concern.
40. The actions of producing and collecting (of grains), of
feeding (one's self) and destroying (others), come by turns to mankind like
the rotation of day and night. 41. Neither adversity nor prosperity is of
long continuance in the case of worldly people, but they are ever subject
to appearance and disappearance by turns. 42. Time is a skilful player and
plays many parts with ease; but he is chiefly skilled in tragedy, and often
plays his tragic part in the affairs of men. 43. All beings are produced
as fruits in the great forest of the universe, by virtue of their good and
bad acts (of past lives): and *time *like a gust of wind blasts them day by
day before their maturity. {samaviṣamavipākato
vibhinnāstribhuvanabhūtaparamparāphalaughāḥ |
samayapavanapātitāḥ patanti pratidinamātatasaṃsṛtidrumebhyaḥ || 43 }||
On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 at 09:26, Rangarajan T.N.C. <[email protected]>
wrote:
> https://you.regettingold.com/
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