Having its current spread in various directions, dreadful is this river of life carrying the world onward in its course. The five senses are its crocodiles. The mind and its objects are the shores.
सर्वतः स्रोतसं घोरां नदी लोकप्रवाहिनीम्। पञ्चेन्द्रियग्राहवती मन:संकल्परोधसम्॥