VEDIC THOUGHT

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VEDIC THOUGHT

 

" What relish can there be for material enjoyment when we are exposed

to hunger, thirst, disease, decrepitude, emaciation, growth, decline,

and death. The universe is tending to decay—grass, trees, animals

spring up and die. Mighty men are gone, leaving their joys and

glories. Beings still greater than these have passed away. Vast oceans

have dried, mountains have been thrown down, the polar star displaced,

the cords that bind planets rent asunder, the whole earth deluged with

flood. In such a world, what relish can there be in fleeting

enjoyments? Living in such a world, are we not like frogs jumping in a

dried-up well? "

 

(Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura - Immanent and Transcendent

(The Scorpion and the Fire))