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The Thirty-Fourth Chapter
167. Like lions, those ascetics, dwelling in the caves of mountains, remained calm and composed, following the teachings of the Jina, free from anxiety. ||183||
168. The forest land, filled with hundreds of wicked beings, was terrifying. Those ascetics, dwelling in those forests, remained absorbed in meditation during the nights. ||184||
185. They dwelt in those forest regions, frequented by elephants, where the trees were broken by the tusks of elephants, and the spaces between them were high and low. ||185||
186. In those forests, where the roar of wild elephants echoed, and where those echoes were filled with roaring lions, those ascetics dwelt in the caves. ||186||
187. Those ascetics, engaged in self-study and yoga, did not sleep at night. They were always awake, engrossed in contemplating the meaning of the scriptures. ||187||
188. Those heroes, sitting in the Paryanka posture, or in the Vira posture, or lying on their side, spent their nights. ||188||
189. Those fearless ascetics, having abandoned the burden of possessions, free from attachment to the body, without any clothes, and pure through the renunciation of possessions, were constantly seeking the path of liberation. ||189||
190. Those ascetics, without any expectations, without any desires, and as free as the wind, wandered through this earth, filled with villages and cities. ||190||
191. Wandering through the entire earth, and not harming any living being, those ascetics, out of their compassion, considered all beings as their children, and treated them like a mother. ||191||
192. They knew the distinction between the living and the non-living, their eyes were radiant with the light of knowledge, or the light of knowledge was their radiant eye. They dwelt only in places devoid of living beings, and their food was also devoid of living beings. Thus, they had renounced all careful enjoyments. ||192||
193. For the sake of the purity of the three jewels, those ascetics had renounced all careful actions (including those that begin with sin) for the rest of their lives. ||193||
194. They carefully protected living beings from harm, from fear, from green plants, and from the fire of the earth. ||194||