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## Anugara Bhavana Adhikar 9.317
**Meaning:** The restrained ascetics have conquered anger, hatred, and delusion with the firm resolve of the three jewels, and have subdued the five senses with the weapons of vows and fasting. || 880 ||
**Dantendiya Maharishi:** They have destroyed anger and hatred, and with the use of meditation, they destroy karma, being free from delusion. || 881 ||
**Meaning:** The great ascetics, who have controlled their senses, have attained appropriate meditation with pure use, and by destroying the defilements of anger and hatred, they become free from delusion and destroy all karma. || 881 ||
**They have destroyed the root of the eight types of karma, the passions, with the qualities of forgiveness, etc. Like a tree whose roots have been uprooted, they will not be born again. || 882 ||**
**Meaning:** The ascetic kings have destroyed the root cause of the eight types of karma, the passions like anger, etc., with the qualities of forgiveness, etc. Therefore, like a tree whose roots have been uprooted, these passions will not be born again. || 882 ||
**They have abandoned the painful and fierce meditations, and have become deeply established in the meditation of Dharma and the white meditation. The white defilement cannot destroy them. || 883 ||**
**Meaning:** To eradicate the passions, they have abandoned the painful and fierce meditations, and have become deeply established in the meditation of Dharma and the white meditation. The white defilement cannot destroy them. || 883 ||