Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Fatalism
"Fatalism," from the Hitopadesha, tr. Arthur William Ryder, Relatives, Being Further Verses Translated from the Sanskrit (San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1919), p. 70:
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What shall not be, will never be;The same, tr. Edwin Arnold, The Book of Good Counsels, from the Sanskrit of the 'Hitopadeśa' (London: W.H. Allen and Co., Limited, 1893), p. 18:
What shall be, will be so:
This tonic slays anxiety;
Taste it, and end your woe.
That which will not be, will not be — and what is to be, will be: Why not drink this easy physic, antidote of misery?
