028 vyasa advises via Janak Ashma conversation

Vyasa relates the conversation between Janak and Ashma. Janak is sorrowful due to departure of loved ones and Ashma rishi tells happiness and sadness are destined and can't be done away with. Just like smell, taste, colour touch fade off after a while so does happiness and sorrow. Even doctors are diseased, strong too get weak, wealthy become impotents, the ways of fate are strange to fathom. Poor beget lots of children, wealthy are childless. Poor lives long, wealthy dies like a fly.