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with wet flesh, well-protected by its wicked enemies, the Karmas, and closed by strong barriers of age Karmas. O Bereft of wisdom ! Have no foolish love for it.
शरणमशरणं वो बन्धवो बन्धमूलं चिरपरिचितदारा द्वारमापद्गृहाणाम् । विपरिमृशत पुत्राः शत्रवः सर्वमेतत् त्यजत भजत धर्म निर्मलं शर्मकामाः॥६०॥
60. Your house is no protection; the relations are the cause of bondage ; the wife to whom you have been long attached is the door to abodes of miseries. Know your sons to be your enemies. Forsake all these. Desirous of happi. ness, you should practise pure religion. तत्कृत्यं किमिहेन्धनैरिव धनैराशाग्निसंधुक्षणैः सम्बन्धेन किमङ्ग शश्वदशुभैः सम्बन्धिभिर्बन्धुभिः। किं मोहाहिमहाबिलेन सदृशा देहेन गेहेन वा देहिन याहि सुखाय ते समममुं मा गाः प्रमादं मुधा ॥६१ ॥
61. What should, in this world, be done with wealth, which, like fuel, feeds the fire of desire? Oh friend ! What is the use of connection with family and relations who are ever (helpful in acquiring) inauspicious (Karmas)! What is the use of the body and the home, which are like big holes of the cobra of delusion! 0 thou embodied one, for happiness acquire this equanimity, (which is the essence of religion); do not be negligent in vain.
आदावेव महाबलैरविचलं पट्टेन बद्धा स्वयं रक्षाध्यक्षभुजासिपञ्जरवृता सामन्तसंरक्षिता। लक्ष्मीर्दीपशिखोपमा क्षितिमतां हा पश्यतां नश्यति प्रायः पातितचामरानिलहते वान्यत्र काशा नृणाम् ॥ ६२॥.
62. Alas, the fortune of rulers of the earth, though it is inextricably bound, in the very beginning, by mighty ones themselves, with (royal) turban, is protected by their vassals, is surrounded, as if it were in a cage, by swords in
| SR No. | 022399 |
| Book Title | Atmanushasana |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | J L Jaini |
| Publisher | Central Jaina Publishing House |
| Publication Year | 1928 |
| Total Pages | 82 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 9 MB |