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ÂKÂRÂNGA SÛTRA.
THIRD LECTURE,
CALLED HOT AND COLD.
First LESSON. The unwise sleep, the sages always wake. Know, that in this world the cause of) misery brings forth evil consequences! Knowing the course of the world?, one should cease from violent acts. He who correctly possesses 3 these (sensual perceptions), viz. sounds, and colours, and smells, and tastes, and touches (1), who self-possessed, wise, just, chaste, with right comprehension understands the world, he is to be called a sage, one who knows the law, and righteous. He knows the connection of the whirl (of births) and the current (of sensation with love and hate). Not minding heat and cold, equanimous against pleasure and pain, the Nirgrantha does not feel the austerity of penance. Waking and free from hostility, a wise man, thou liberatest (thyself and others) from the miseries. (2)
But a man always benighted, subject to old age and death, does not know the law. Seeing living beings suffering, carnestly enter a religious life 4. Considering this, O prudent one, look!
Knowing the misery that results from action, The deluded and careless one returns to life;
* I. e. ignorance and delusion. Regarding the evil-doer.
s And renounces. • Again a half sloka, unnoticed as such by the commentators.
