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59. One should not set the heart on agreeable sensations, realising their transitoriness and the changeableness of material atoms.
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60. Comprehending rightly the changeableness of material atoms one should live with one's soul grown cold through want of passions and with thirst for pleasures quenched.
61. With whatever faith one renounces the world and enters the excellent order of monks, that very faith one must keep up in observing the fundamental rules approved by the ácȧrya.
62. Always performing this kind of penance, this course of mental restraint and this course of study, he like a fully armed warrior when attacked by an army, becomes a match for himself and a match for others.'
63. Of him who is engaged in study and meditation, who is a protector of one's self and others, who has a pure heart and is engaged in austerities, all impurity (i. c. karman) gathered in previous births is removed just as the impurity of gold is removed by fire.
64. Such a monk bearing hardships, keeping sense organs under control, engaged in study, fre from worldly ties and devoid of all possessions shines forth on the removal of the clouds of karman just as the moor. shines when the curtain of clouds has completely disappeared.
Eighth chapter of the Dasaveyáliya.
1. I. e. able to save himself and defeat others (passions).
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