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One should keep equanimity in gain land loss, pleasure and pain, life and death, censure and praise and honour and insult.
Dress (of a monk) does not verify the authenticity of a person who is devoid of self-control. Is not one killed by swallowing poison even if he changes his dress?
External objects are relinquished for inner purification. External renunciation is futile for one who is bound internally.
A real saint is one who is unattached to his body, who is completely free from passions like ego etc. and who is engrossed in one self.
All such vows are great where there is no reservation of desire for return, perverted vision and hypocrisy. A vow is polluted by these three reservations.
A negligent person always commits violence, whether his activities kill some one or not. A vigilant is not bound merely because his activity may happen to injure somebody.
One should cautiously walk, stand, sit, sleep, eat and speak. He is not bounded by evil in
this way.
He is self-disciplined, who forsaking the alien modifications, remains engrossed in his pure nature.
A realized soul should think that I am that who never leaves his own nature and does not assume the nature of others; who knows and sees all.
He practices penance who takes food in small quantity for the study of scriptures. Penance without study is just starving one self.
Just as a fire in the forest consumes the heap of grass the fire of penance, set ablaze by right character and accompanied by the wind of right knowledge burns the cause of mundane existence.
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