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Surely the fire of your anger will eventually consume your face’s charm and banish its radiance. Yet my days, empty of your presence, will never retur...
Death is inevitable for all humans; one should not lament what is destined.
A son always imitates his father’s conduct. A screw-pine tree cannot bear amalaki fruit—nature follows lineage.
Destruction that is bound to happen comes when its time arrives—it was once a future that is now present.
Whatever is destined happens, even great things. Shiva is naked; Vishnu sleeps on a serpent—yet they are supreme.
When there is remedy for fate, wise people like Nala, Rama, and Yudhishthira endure sorrow with fortitude.
Eventually, pleasures must go. Though long enjoyed, they depart, leaving pain. But their renunciation brings lasting peace.
The doer of sinful acts certainly reaps results, just as trees bloom in due season—the fruits of karma are inevitable.
The chataka bird preserves life only for a destined reason; though afraid of rejection, it never begs—even from Indra.
Even at the moment of death, if the life of a great soul helps another, then that death is immortal.
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