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## Mulachara
**He who is endowed with knowledge and conduct, meditation, study, and austerity, and is free from the gravity of passions, easily crosses over the world.** || 968 ||
**Meaning:** A Muni who possesses knowledge and conduct, meditation, study, and austerity, and is free from the gravity of passions, easily crosses over the ocean of the world. || 968 ||
**The monk who engages in self-study, controls his five senses, is three-fold secret, and is concentrated in meditation, is well-disciplined.** || 969 ||
**Meaning:** The monk who engages in self-study, controls his five senses, becomes three-fold secret, is absorbed in meditation, and is well-disciplined. || 969 ||
**There are twelve types of austerities, both internal and external, with skillful vision. There is no other austerity, nor will there be, equal to self-study.** || 970 ||
**Meaning:** There are twelve types of austerities, both internal and external, with skillful vision, as shown by the Tirthankaras, Ganadharas, etc. There is no other austerity, nor will there be, equal to self-study. Self-study is the supreme austerity. || 970 ||
**Just as a needle with a thread does not get lost due to negligence, so also a virtuous person does not get lost due to negligence.** || 971 ||