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13.8Krishna
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इन्द्रियार्थेषु वैराग्यमनहङ्कार एव च ।जन्ममृत्युजराव्याधिदुःखदोषानुदर्शनम् ॥

indriyārtheṣu vairāgyam anahaṅkāra eva ca |janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam ||

जन्ममृत्युजराव्याधि · janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi
birth, death, old age, disease
दुःखदोषानुदर्शनम् · duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam
perceiving the sorrow and fault in them

Dispassion toward objects of sense, absence of self-pride, and steady perception of the sorrow and fault in birth, death, old age, and disease —

Original plain-language translation

Clear-eyed realism joins detachment: the wise keep life's built-in sorrows in view without melodrama. This echoes the Buddha's diagnostic gaze — seeing suffering plainly is counted as knowledge, not pessimism.

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