the game)--this is the process in which expert
Kala plays (his game) on the checkerboard of
this world with living beings as the pieces to be
moved, and casting the two dice of day and
night.
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आदित्यस्य गतागतैरहरहः संक्षीथते जीवितं |
43 . Daily, with the rising and setting of the sun, life shortens, and time (i.e. its flight) is not felt on account of affairs heavily burdened with manifold activities. Neither is fear produced at beholding birth, death, old age, and sufferings. (Alas), the world is become mad by drinking the stupefying wine of delusion
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रात्रिः सैवे पुनः स एव दिवसो मत्वा मुधा जन्तवो |
44, Seeing even the same night to be ever following the same day, in vain do creatures run on (their Worldly course) perseveringly and busy with various activities set ageing secretly, i.e. by individual mental resolves. Alas, through infatuation we do not feel ashamed at being thus
