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THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE JAINAS.
162. What can Karma do to saints who see with discrimination, whose wealth is possession-less-ness and to whom death itself is life.
जीविताशा धनाशा च येषां तेषां विधिर्विधिः । किं करोति विधिस्तेषां येषामाशा निराशता ॥ १६३॥
163. Karma is a ruler to those who desire life and aspire for wealth. What can Karma do to them, whose desire has been extinguished.
परां कोटिं समारूढौ द्वावेव स्तुतिनिन्दयोः । यस्त्यजेत्तपसे चक्रं यस्तपोविषयाशया ॥ १६४॥
164. Only those two have reached the highest stages of praise and blame; one who renounces Empire for the sake of austerity, and the one who relinquishes austerity for sense-gratification.
त्यजतु तपसे चक्रं चक्री यतस्तपसः फलं
सुखमनुपमं स्वोतं (त्थं ) नित्यं ततो न तदद्भुतम् । इदमिह महच्चित्रं यत्तद्विषं विषयात्मकं
पुनरपि सुधीस्त्यक्तं भोक्तुं जहाति महत्तपः ॥१६५॥
165. Since unrivalled eternal bliss, arising from one's ownself, is the fruit of austerities, an Emperor may renounce his kingdom for asceticism. There is no wonder in this. (But) this is a great wonder in this world that a wise man should relinquish noble austerity to feed again upon the poison of sense-pleasures, which had been renounced.
शय्यातलादपि तु कोऽपि भयं प्रपाता
मुङ्गात्ततः खलु विलोक्य किलात्मपीड़ाम् । चित्रं त्रिलोकशिखरादपि दूरतुङ्गा
मान्स्वयं न तपसः पतनाद्विभेति ॥ १६६॥
166. Fore-seeing injury to self, one is afraid of falling down even from a high bed-stead. It is a wonder
