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If a pleasing deed is not performed for love’s sake, what use is effort? Love grants success to the heart’s longing.
The tamāla tree on Kalinda’s banks refreshes the tired travelers, radiating cooling beauty among blossoming vines.
Half-submerged herons cry loudly amid dark waves, as if echoing the grief of the moon’s lost son.
When the king of Kali reigns, righteousness turns into unrighteousness, and the wrong is falsely glorified.
Even the gods fade when Kali Yuga’s shadow falls—what then of mortal beings’ commitment to virtue?
Just as a bubble forms overnight, and an egg in five nights, similarly the human head (brain/mind) develops in a month—implying gradual development an...
Even amidst the reign of Kali (the age of darkness), one need not fear transformation. Only those ignorant of dharma practices are gripped by fear.
Even impure, salty, or foul-smelling water can become sweet and fragrant when mixed with the right elements—an allegory to how company or effort can p...
The king’s pure, lotus-like glance unexpectedly falls upon unworthy ones, indicating how grace or favor can mistakenly empower the undeserving.
Even water that is impure is considered sweet nowadays—like false words of the deceitful being accepted as truth.
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