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You should observe the ATH Samyama dharma, the duties of an ascetic, bravely, without any defect what-so-ever in accordance with the fourth variety, in such a way, that gfer Mukti, Emancipation soon becomes an object to be grasped by the palms of the hand.
You should not be negligent because negligence causes wandering in the Samsāra, even in the case of persons who have already taken up FTAT Samyama Dharma, the duties of an ascetic.
Because, चउद्दसपुव्वी आहारगावि मणनाणी वीरागा य ।। होति पमायपरवसा तयणंतरमेव चउगइआ ॥१॥
1. Cauddasa puyvī āhāragāvi mañanāņi viyorāgā ya;
Honti pamāyapara vasā tayaṇantarameva caugaia. 1.
1. Even ascetics well-versed in the fourteen Pūrvas, ascetics with Abāraka Labdhi, ascetics with haqda Manaḥ-paryava Jnāna, Mental Knowledge, and ascetics who are exempt from passions, become wanderers afterwards in the four Gatis of this Samsāra on account of their becoming over-powered by negligence,
Jambū Muni, thence-forward, particularly practised severe austerities. It is for this very reason, that the great sage is daily praised in the following words, by many ascetics:- .
नवणवई कंचणकोडीउ,जेणुज्झिया अट्टय बालियाओ।
सो जम्बूस्वामी पढमोमुणीणं, अपच्छिमो नंदउ केवलीणं ॥ १ ॥ 1. Navaṇavai kancaņa kodiu jeņujjhiyā attha ya baliyao
So Jambū-swāmi, padbamo muộiņam, apacchimo nandau Kevaliņam. 1.
1. Obeisance to Jambū Swāmin, the most excellent ascetic and the last Kevalin who abandoned the prosperity of a
