The Buddha-Carita or The Life of Buddha by Ven. Aśvaghoṣa

Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 81
madviyoga prati cchada satāpastyajyatāmayam |
nānābhāvo hi niyata pthagjātiṣu dehiṣu || 6.43
43. ‘Abandon this distress, Chada, regarding thy separation from me, — change is
inevitable in corporeal beings who are subject to different births.
svajana yadyapi snehānna tyajeya mumukṣayā |
mtyuranyonyamavaśānasmān satyājayiṣyati || 6.44
44. ‘Even if I through affection were not to abandon my kindred in my desire for
liberation, death would still make us helplessly abandon one another.
mahatyā tṣṇayā duḥkhairgarbheṇāsmi yayā dhtaḥ |
tasyā niṣphalayatnāyāḥ kvāha mātuḥ kva sā mama || 6.45
45. ‘She, my mother, by whom I was borne in the womb with great thirst and pains, —
where am I now with regard to her, all her efforts fruitless, and where is she with
regard to me?
vāsavkṣe samāgamya vigacchati yathāḍajāḥ |
niyata viprayogātastathā bhūtasamāgamaḥ || 6.46
46. ‘As birds go to their roosting-tree and then depart, so the meeting of beings
inevitably ends in separation.
sametya ca yathā bhūyo vyapayāti valāhakāḥ |
sayogo viprayogaśca tathā me prāṇinā mataḥ || 6.47
47. ‘As clouds, having come together, depart asunder again, such I consider the
meeting and parting of living things.
yasmādyāti ca loko ’ya vipralabhya parasparam |
mamatva na kṣama tasmātsvapnabhūte samāgame || 6.48
48. ‘And since this world goes away, each one of us deceiving the other, — it is not
right to think anything thine own in a time of union which is a dream.
sahajena viyujyate parṇarāgeṇa pādapāḥ |
anyenānyasya viśleṣaḥ ki punarna bhaviṣyati || 6.49
49. ‘Since the trees are parted from the innate colour of their leaves, why should there
not still more be the parting of two things which are alien to each other?
tadeva sati satāpa mā kārṣīḥ saumya gamyatām |
labate yadi tu sneho gatvāpi punarāvraja || 6.50
50. ‘Therefore, since it is so, grieve not, my good friend, but go; or if thy love lingers,
then go and afterwards return.