Neither the happiness which is derived from a gratification of the senses nor that great happiness which one may enjoy in heaven, even comes up to a sixteenth part of the happiness which originates from the destruction of all desire.
यच्च कामसुखं लोके यच्च दिव्यं महत् सुखम्। तृष्णाक्षयसुखस्यैते नार्हतः षोडशी कलाम्॥