Verse 61

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In plain words

The fish gulps down the fisherman's rich bait and dies for it. Just so, the man chasing his pleasures is hooked, and reeled straight to his ruin.

Close to the Sanskrit

The fish, eating the great bait given by the fisherman, dies; likewise the man, enjoying sense-objects, drawn by the hook, falls.