The whole material life is horrid. We desire so many things, we struggle, we may get some of them, then decay and deterioration of body and mind and empire set in, and all becomes gray and old and foolish.
"Why then this childish play in that which cannot be our own? Which dies within a hundred years as if a rose a-blown?"- Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura
The old man still wants dynamic meaningful life, but instead all is taken away and the jackals circle. That is an ordinary man's life.
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Krsna
what do You want me to see and do and be?
Inherant inside of me.
Always i try to make you meet my own inner see
but rather, i prefer to surrender to the Divine Tend-er
I would see and do and be,
what You find You want for and from me.
What pleases You shall surely please me
I do not know who I am even
Yet I would dictate the scene ?
Thats a bit selfish and mean.