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When weed, straw and fodder is put before a hungry cow
lifting her head up she doesn't look
at the guards' ornaments-decorations, at their limbs and sub-limbs.
In the same manner
the practice of the ascetic is
while taking the food,
which is called 'gocari-vratti (cow's grazing).
No thought of this or that,
it may be sweet, it may be sour,
it may be whatever,
but it should be water
with it people quickly put out the fire burning their house.
In the same manner,
it may be tasteful or tasteless,
it may be whatever,
but it should be edible;
the abdominal fire has to be quenched, isn't it!
And
this is the 'agni-samaka-vratti (putting out the fire manner) of the
sramana,
greatest of all the practices!
The group of black beetles athirst of pollen of buds-flowers-bunches, of fruits,
drinks tasty aroma,
but
never gives them any pain;
Silent Soil :: 335
