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BOOK I, LECTURE 7, LESSON 8.
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Knowing the twofold (obstacles, i.e. bodily and mental), the wise ones, having thoroughly learned the law, perceiving in due order (that the time for their death has come), get rid of karman. (2)
Subduing the passions and living on little food !, he should endure (hardships). If a mendicant falls sick, let him again take food. (3)
He should not long for life, nor wish for death; he should yearn after neither, life or death. (4)
He who is indifferent and wishes for the destruction of karman, should continue his contemplation. Becoming unattached internally and externally, he should strive after absolute purity. (5)
Whatever means one knows for calming one's own life ?, that a wise man should learn (i. e. practise) in order to gain time (for continuing penance). (6)
In a village or in a forest, examining the ground and recognising it as free from living beings, the sage should spread the straw 3. (7)
Without food he should lie down and bear the pains which attack him. He should not for too long time give way to worldly feelings which overcome him. (8)
When crawling animals or such as live on high or below, feed on his flesh and blood, he should neither kill them nor rub (the wound). (9)
Though these animals destroy the body, he should not stir from his position.
i Compare lecture 7, lesson 6, $ 3.
* I. e. for preserving the life, when too severe penance brings on sickness and the probability of instant death.
* Here commences the description of the bhaktapratyakhya - namarana, suicide by rejecting food.
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| SR No. | 007677 |
| Book Title | Saddharma Pundarika |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | H Kern |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1884 |
| Total Pages | 2546 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 46 MB |