Verse 19
Death standing close· Verses 19–22
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19Even if they know how happiness is got and how pain is kept off, they still do not truly know the way by which death would have no power. 20What thing that he has gained gives him any pleasure, or what desire, with death standing close? Nothing pleases a condemned man being led to the killing ground. 21What is only heard of is spoiled just as what is seen is, by rivalry and envy, by ending and by expense; and with many hindrances in it and much wanting, it bears no fruit, like a crop. 22If dharma, well carried out, is not undone by hindrances, hear how, even by that, a man goes to the place he has won.