When the Judgment fails?

When the Judgment fails?

"As fate decrees, so riches come and vanish.

But I lament to find the love of friends

Hangs all unstrung because a man is poor.

And then with poverty comes disrespect;

From disrespect does self-dependence fail,

Then scorn and sorrow, following, overwhelm

The Intellect; and when the judgment fails

The being perishes; and thus the poverty

Each ill that pains humanity, proceeds.

(Excerpts from "Mrichchakati or The Toy Cart)

It is the excerpts of translation from the original Sanscrit by Horace Hayman Wilson, Esq. in 1826)