Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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VISHNU.
XCVI, 31.
31. And on (his having to dwell) between urine and fæces;
32. On his having to suffer, (as an embryo,) pain from the cold and hot (food and drink, which his mother happens to have taken);
33. On the dreadful pain which he has to suffer, at the time of his birth, while the embryo is coming forth from the narrowness of the womb;
34. On his ignorance and his dependency upon his (parents and other) Gurus in childhood;
35. On the manifold anxieties arising from the study of the Veda (and from the other obligations of a student);
36. And (on the anxieties arising) in youth from not obtaining the objects of pleasure, and upon the abode in hell (ordained as punishment) for enjoying them, after they have been obtained unlawfully;
37. On the union with those whom we hate, and the separation from those whom we love;
38. On the fearful agonies of hell;
39. And (on the agonies) that have to be suffered in the passage of the soul through the bodies of animals (and of plants). .
40. (And let him reflect thus that) there is no pleasure to be met with in this never-ceasing passage of the soul through mundane existence;
41. (And that) even what is called pleasure, on account of the absence of pain, is of a transient nature;
42. (And that) he who is unable to enjoy such pleasures (from sickness or some such cause), or who is unable to procure them (from poverty), suffers severe pangs.
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