ĀTMĀNUŚĀSANA – PRECEPT ON THE SOUL by Ācārya GUṆABHADRA (ca. 818–900 A.D.) [55]
Gātha 53
Just the recollection of the worldly existence causes extreme anguish; no point in discussing the sufferings you have experienced (in the past) in worldly states of existence, like the infernal being. O worthy soul! But then you bear in mind the suffering, like ‘burning’ of a young sapling bitten by frost, when here, as a pauper, you were attacked by the arrows of Cupid in form of voluptuous smiles and piercing glances of women.
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