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57. Having dissolved sexual attachments which are exceedingly difficult to be dissolved, if the person lives in society, the rest of his attachments also disappear. As for instance, if the person, having crossed the ocean, has come out of it, it becomes, then, easy for him to cross the rivers like the Gangā.
no greed, by him desire has been eradicated; in whose possession there is nothing, by him greed has been wiped
out.
58. The night that passes does not return. The nights of the man committing vicious acts pass in vain.
59. The self knows by the self that real Dharma (spiritual value) is self-seeingness. The self does this in such a way that he becomes the attainer of self-caused happi
ness.
60. (My) self alone is the river Vaitarani (the self alone is fraught with vices); (my) self alone is the Kūṭaśālmali tree for me (the self alone is distressful for himself); (my) self alone is the Kamadudha cow (the self alone is the yielder of desired objects for himself) and (my) self alone is the Indra's garden for me (the self alone is the pleasureful dwelling for himself).
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River Vaitarani
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A river in the hell.
Kūtaśālmali tree : A tree in the hell with sharp thorns. Kāmadudha cow: A mythological cow satisfying all
the desires.
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