An idea from Upanishads

A king hands his throne to his son, stands in the forest with his arms raised, and asks a sage what good desire is in a body of bone, mucus and bile, in a world where even oceans dry up. “I am like a frog in a waterless well.”

From Upanishads by Anonymous

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