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burns the seeds which cause mundane existence, as the forest-conflagration (burns) the heep of grass.
160. For him whose mind merges (itself) in meditation, as salt dissolves in contact with water, the fire of spiritual experience, the inflamer of the auspicious and inauspicious karmas emerges.
161. The person by whom meditation has been practised is not afflicted by the mental suffering of jealousy, dejection, grief etc. born of passions.
162. Just as the fire along with the air swiftly burns up the fuel. which has been accumulated for a long time, so also the fire of meditation instantly consumes the fuel of unlimited karmas.
163. For the beings being swept away by the current of old age and death, spirituality is the support, the place of protection, an excellent refuge and an abode of shelter.
164. The courageous person will inevitably die and the coward one will also inevitably die. So at the time of death which is inevitable, to die with tranquility is undoubtedly better.
165. Just as the army perishes when the commander has been killed, so also on the destruction of the deluding karma (attachment), all the other karmas (impurities) vanish.
166. Salutation to the Anekantavāda which is the singular teacher of mankind, without which even the transaction of the world does not at all go on.
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