Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana Book 11 Chapter 10:14-21

Book 11: Chapter 10

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Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana: Book 11: Chapter 10: Verses 14-21

If you admit the variety of souls, the agents of actions, subject to happiness and misery; if you maintain that the regions, time, the Vedas and the soul are eternal; and if you hold that all objects while constantly changing are eternal and that the whole sense of perception is engendered by the objects perceived and then changes with the objects; . then, 0 Uddhava, you will have to admit that all souls associated with a body are subject to time and repeatedly to the states of birth and death etc. Then it is evident from your.standpoint that the doer of actions is surely subject to'pleasure and pain and for one so dependent there can be little happiness. Even learned persons, because they have bodies, enjoy no happiness, and even fools are not necessarily unhappy. Therefore egotism on the part of both is simply vain. Even if they know how to win happiness and overcome misery, they surely have not been able to discover means of averting death. What happiness. can wealth or any sense-enjoyment bring to man when the nearness of death gives him no satisfaction, just as a victim being escorted to the place of execution cannot enjoy any pleasure ? Like the worldly pleasures, the bliss of heaven is also vitiated by envy, jealousy, evanescence and decay. There are many impediments in attaining to that bliss and it is fruitless (at times) like cultivation.

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