Man wants happiness. He shuns pain.
He moves heaven and earth to get
the happiness he wants from sensual objects,
and lo, gets himself entangled in the extricable meshes of illusion.
Poor man! He does not know that these objects
are perishable and evanescent, finite and
conditioned in time, space, and causation.
And what is more, he
fails to get the desired happiness from them.
Sensual pleasure is
tantalizing. There is enchantment so long
as man does not possess the objects.
The moment he is in possession of the object, the charm
vanishes. He finds that he is in entanglement.
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