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## The Great Renunciation Discourse (60)
Devakuru and Uttar Kuru – where Kalpavriksha trees eternally exist, (there)
born and reborn as humans, Vidyadharas and Devas, (this being) has not been satiated. (61) The soul does not attain liberation through eating and drinking. If
(the soul) does not desire hellish realms, then it surely attains liberation. (62) (I) have attained the supreme enjoyments of Devas, Chakravartis (emperors) and kingdoms countless times, yet I have not been satisfied by them. (63) (I) have been born countless times in the Kshirodak ocean, Ikshu-ras ocean and the delicious Mahodadhi ocean, yet my thirst has not been quenched by their cool waters. (64) (This being) has experienced countless times the unparalleled joy of sensual pleasures related to love and desire in all three ways, yet its thirst for sensual pleasures has not been quenched. Driven by attachment and aversion, whoever (person) makes various requests to me with attachment, I rebuke and scorn them. By ending the web of delusion, piercing the eight accumulated karmas, and breaking the cycle of birth and death (samsara), you
will be liberated from the world (bhavan-parampara). (67) (The seeker) should desire the death of a wise person, observing the five great vows in all three ways,
and being restrained in mind, speech and body (i.e., possessing tri-gupta).
(Five Great Vows Protection) (68) Abandoning anger, pride, deceit, greed and similarly attachment and aversion, I (am) diligently protecting the five great vows. (69) Abandoning strife, slander, gossip and criticism of others, I (am)
restrainedly protecting the five great vows. (70) By restraining the five types of sensual qualities and the five senses,