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on his spiritual path only with just essential quantity of food. As taking excessive quantity of food or very tasty and rich food is detrimental to the practice of discipline, one should have knowledge of the quantitative aspects of food.
With the food-discipline one should also acquire a feeling of detachment towards form and other attributes. This is conveyed by viragam ruvehim. Detachment for forms also leads to the ultimate detachment.
Aagatim gatim parinnaya-There are four gatis (states or dimensions of birth). One should ponder over the question-A being of which gati can come to which other gati or from which gati a being can go to which other gati ? For example an animal or a human being can pass to or come from any four gatis, but gods and hell beings can pass to or come from only two gatis namely animal and human. And it is only humans who can transcend into the fifth gati, liberation, by terminating this process of transference. From there they return no more to any other gati.
१२५. अवरेण पुव्विं ण सरंति एगे किमस्सतीतं किं वाऽऽगमिस्सं ? भासंति एगे इह माणवाओ जमस्स तीयं तं आगमिस्सं ॥ णातीतम ण य आगमिस्सं अहं णियच्छंति तहागया उ विहूयकप्पे एयाणुपस्सी णिज्झोसइत्ता खवगे महेसी ॥ का अरइ के आणंदे ? एत्थंपि अग्गहे चरे । सव्वं हासं परिच्चज्ज आलीणगुत्तो परिव्व ॥
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१२५. कुछ पुरुष भविष्य का तथा अतीत का स्मरण नहीं करते। वे इसकी चिन्ता नहीं करते कि इसका अतीत क्या था, भविष्य क्या होगा? कुछ मानव यों कह देते हैं कि जो जिसका अतीत था, वही इसका भविष्य होगा। किन्तु तथागत - (सर्वज्ञ) न तो अतीत के (विषय- भोगादि रूप ) अर्थ का स्मरण करते हैं और न ही भविष्य के दिव्यांगना - संगादि वैषयिक सुख का चिन्तन करते हैं।
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