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UTTARADHYAYANA.
Perceiving that the four requisites are difficult to obtain, he will apply himself to self-control, and when by penances he has shaken off the remnant of Karman, he will become an eternal Siddha. (20)
Thus I say.
FOURTH LECTURE.
IMPURITY.
You cannot prolong your life 1, therefore be not careless; you are past help when old age approaches. Consider this : what (protection) will careless people get, who kill living beings and do not exert themselves ? (1)
Men who adhering to wrong principles acquire wealth by evil deeds, will lose it, falling into the snares (of their passions) and being held captive by their hatred. (2)
As the burglar? caught in the breach of the wall perishes by the work the sinner himself had executed, thus people in this life and the next cannot escape the effect of their own actions. (3)
If a man living in the Samsara does an action for the sake of somebody else, or one by which he him
A similar expression is used in Sätrakritânga 1, 2, 2, 21. ? Dêvêndra relates two stories of burglars, one of which is supposed to be hinted at in the text. It comes to this. A burglar is caught, in the breach he had excavated, by the owner of the house, who takes hold of his feet protruding from the breach. But the burglar's companion tries to drag him out from the other side of the wall. In this position he is smashed by the upper part of the wall coming down.
