A History of Indian Philosophy v2.c19.6

v2.c19.6

Rāma said in reply that a new enquiry had come into his mind and had made him averse from all enjoyments. There is no happiness in this world, people are born to die and they die to be born again. Everything is impermanent (*asthira*) in this world. All existent things are unconnected (*bhāvāḥ…parasparam asaṅginaḥ*). They are collected and associated together only by our mental imagination (*manaḥ-kalpanayā*). The world of enjoyment is created by the mind (*manaḥ*), and this mind itself appears to be non-existent. Everything is like a mirage.