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Despondency is also a disadvantage, and its avoidance is seen in the Ratnamegha: “Here, a bodhisattva does not generate such a thought: ‘Awakening is difficult to attain by one who is a human being; and this vigor of mine is meager, and I am lazy, while awakening is to be acquired through many aeons, many hundreds of aeons, many thousands of aeons, like one whose head clothes are on fire. Therefore, I am not capable of bearing such a burden.’”