Verse 76

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In plain words

[Chapter Six: On Dispassion.] When a house, a wife, a child, wealth — someone else's — arrives or is destroyed, is joy or grief even called for? Would either survive a single moment in someone standing steady?

Close to the Sanskrit

[Section 6: The Chapter on Dispassion.] At the gain or the loss of another's house, wife, son, and wealth, are joy and grief said [to be fitting]? Or would they last even a moment for one who stands firm?