George Dance
2010-01-08 20:48:28 UTC
Upanishad
What is the good of loving our desires
in these foul-smelling, insubstantial bodies
of bone, skin, muscle, marrow, semen, flesh,
tears, sweat, feces, urine, bile, and wind?
What is the good of loving our desires
when we can see the whole world is decaying,
when ants, mosquitos, every living creature,
the very trees and rocks, arise and perish?
What is the good of loving our desires
when we can see the drying up of oceans,
the fall of mountains, and the earth's submergence,
even the disappearance of the stars?
What is the good of loving our desires?
Deliver me, and let me not exist.
--
George Dance
What is the good of loving our desires
in these foul-smelling, insubstantial bodies
of bone, skin, muscle, marrow, semen, flesh,
tears, sweat, feces, urine, bile, and wind?
What is the good of loving our desires
when we can see the whole world is decaying,
when ants, mosquitos, every living creature,
the very trees and rocks, arise and perish?
What is the good of loving our desires
when we can see the drying up of oceans,
the fall of mountains, and the earth's submergence,
even the disappearance of the stars?
What is the good of loving our desires?
Deliver me, and let me not exist.
--
George Dance