Mahabharata Bibliomancy Reading
This oracle randomly points to a line from one of sacred books of Mahabharata. The surrounding lines are also provided for context.
Your passage is from BOOK 13 - ANUSASANA PARVA - SECTION CXVII.
I hear also the diverse sounds made by the men who are driving the bulls.
Surrounding Context from
BOOK 13 - ANUSASANA PARVA - SECTION CXVII
O thou of great intelligence, fierce is the roar it makes.
It is almost come!
The sound is heard.
Will it not kill me?
It is for this that I am flying away.
The sound, as it is heard from a near point, I catch, of the bulls I hear.
They are breathing hard under the whip of the driver, as they are drawing the heavy burden.
I hear also the diverse sounds made by the men who are driving the bulls.
Such sounds are incapable of being heard by a creature that like us has taken his birth in the order of worms.
It is for this reason that I am flying from this situation of great fright.
Death is felt by all creatures to be fraught with pain.
Life is an acquisition difficult to make.
Hence, I fly away in fear, I do not wish to pass from a state of happiness to one of woe.'"
"'Bhishma continued, "Thus addressed, the Island-born Vyasa said, 'O worm, whence can be thy happiness?
Thou belongest to the intermediate order of being.
