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THE AWAKENING OF KARKANDU
For long Karkandu stood there looking at the old bull and contemplating
Is old age so pitiable. The aging process sucks the juices from the body and a being becomes weak, meek, and dependent....
LOGGGO
SCOGS
WE
SPACIO
The king was shocked
Would I too become old? My body will become fragile with aging. I will suffer the
affliction of weakness and meekness.
One who renounces mundane pleasure and treads the path of yoga
overcomes aging.
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No! No! I will compose myself before the
onslaught of old age.
AS
ht
ODOCOO
I will make my soul strong with the practices of discipline and austerities.
Then aging.... and death will not be
able to afflict me....
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