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CWSA.- Volume 5

Part One. Translations from Sanskrit
Section Four. Bhartrihari. The Century of Life

On Wealth

Circumstance

There is no absoluteness in objects. See

This indigent man aspire as to a prize

To handfuls of mere barley-bread! yet he

A few days past, fed full with luxuries,

Held for a trifle earth and all her skies.

Not in themselves are objects great or small,

But circumstance works on the elastic mind,

To widen or contract. The view is all,

And by our inner state the world’s defined.