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Bhikkham cara vasa ranne thovam jemehi ma bahoo jampa | dukkham saha jina niddaa mettim bhavehi suttu veraggam ||897 ||
Go around to obtain food(in the form of bhiksha), stay at forest, eat less, do not talk more, sustain sorrow, conquer sleep, feel about friendliness and detachment.
hemante dhidimanta sahanti te himarayam paramaghoram |
angesu nivadamanam naliniivana vinasayam siiyam || 865 ||
Bold Sramanas who are sustaining the dangerous mists of the winter season are so cold and are the destroyer of lotus jungle that are falling on their body.
dujjana-vayana cadayanam sahanti acchoda satthapaharam ca | na ya kuppanti maharisii kha managuna-viyaanayaa sahoo || 869 ||
The Greate Sages who are the knower of the excellent quality of forgiving are never becomes angry on mischievous scolding words of wickeds, that are destabilising their heart, they also sustain false words and wounds from the sharpest weapons.
na vi te abhitthunanti ya pindattham na vi ya kind jaayanti | monawadena munino caranti bhikkham abhaasantaa || 819 ||
The greate saints never praise anyone for the sake of food, they beg nothing. Without uttering any word about the food they move silently.
Akkhomakkhana-mettam bhunjanti munii paanadhaarananimittam | Panam dhamma-nimittam dhammam pi caranti mokkhattham || 817||
Greate-saints takes food for the sake of preserving of their life just like the smearing on the pole of a cart, preserving of their life is for the sake of religion and that the performing of religion is for the sake of the Moksha or Liberation.
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