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By anger, fear, and avarice deluded, Men do not strive to understand themselves, Nor ever gain self-knowledge. One is proud · Of rank and plumes himself upon his birth, Contemning those of low degree; another Boasts of his riches, and disdains the poor; Another vaunts his learning, and despising Men of less wisdom, calls them fools; a fourth Piquing himself upon his rectitude, Is quick 10 censure other people's faults. But when the high and low, the rich and poor, The wise and foolish, worthy and unworthy, Are borne to their last resting-place the graveWhen all their troubles end in that last sleer, And of their earthly bodies nought remains, But fleshless skeletons .can living men Mark difference between them, or perceive Distinctions in that dust of birth or form? Since all are, therefore, levelled by the grave And all must sleep together in the earthWhy, foolish mortals, do ye wrong each other?
-“ Mahabharata"
