Do not to anything try to hold fast,
As nothing will forever last,
Joys and sorrows come and go,
Be a viewer of the eternal flitting show,
When the shadow of impermanence everything chases,
When even the grandest edifice built time razes,
When everything vanishes like a passing cloud,
Why should any attempt to cling your thinking shroud?
View the goings-on in life with dispassion,
As transience casts everything after its fashion.
As the moving shadows flit past,
As the whirring reel of life moves fast,
Watch the advancing and retreating waves from the shore,
Be an uninvolved witness, don’t ask for anything more!
Arun Bhagat
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