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The Dhaarmik Traditions - Indic Studies Foundation

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With scholarship, fear of challengers<br />

With virtue, fear of traducers<br />

With the identification with body, fear of death<br />

Everything in this world is done with fear<br />

Renunciation alone makes one fearless.<br />

In a later verse (35), he brings out the beauty of selfsurrender<br />

Life trembles, like a drop of water on the edge of a lotus<br />

leaf<br />

then it is swallowed by the wind<br />

<strong>The</strong> wise fix their mind in Truth, which comes to all in the<br />

calm of self-surrender achieved by renunciation<br />

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