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# Encyclopaedia of Sanskrit subhāṣitas 351

Mahāsubhāṣitasaṃgraha 351

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [351](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.mahasubhasitasangraha.351)

acirāt parātmaniṣṭhā bhavati yatastatkriyeta catureṇa kleśen kāmadamanaṃ dhigekadārañjayantamātmānam //

> Since devotion to the supreme Self occurs in a short time, that should be accomplished by the clever person; / cursed be the soul that satisfies itself only in a single wife through the torment of subduing desire!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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