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Prefix Study
Oh! All these touches are rough and unbearable.
Like an elephant pierced by arrows, they are weak and have gone back to the house. I say this.
Translation
Students! The prefixes mentioned earlier are unbearable and painful, overwhelmed by them, cowardly men return to household life. Just as an elephant wounded by arrows flees the battlefield, so too do men without inner strength abandon restraint in fear, I say this.
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Commentary - To conclude, he says, "Oh" is an address to the students, those who have been described as afflictions from the beginning, such as bites of mosquitoes, etc., are afflictions because they cause pain. "All" means all, in abundance, they are touched - experienced by the sense of touch, therefore they are called touches. What kind are they? "Rough" because they are done by the unrefined, they cause pain, and those with little strength cannot bear them, and some of those with low character, accepting praise, like an elephant on the battlefield, "pierced by a net of arrows" - overwhelmed by hundreds of arrows, they suffer defeat, similarly, "weak" - powerless, "subdued" - under the control of others, bound by karma, they have gone back to the house, or in another reading, "with intense speed" - with intense speed, "deceitful" - deceitful in their practices, they have abandoned restraint and gone to the house, I say this, as before. ||17|| This is the first objective of the study of afflictions.
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Commentary - In the present verse, the word "Oh" is used to address the students, who have been described as afflictions from the beginning, such as bites of mosquitoes, etc., are afflictions because they cause pain. "All" means all, in abundance, they are touched - experienced by the sense of touch, therefore they are called touches. They are all inflicted by unrefined men, they cause pain, and those with little strength cannot bear them, and some of those with low character, accepting praise, first accept restraint, but like an elephant wounded by arrows, flees the battlefield, so too do these men, unable to bear the aforementioned afflictions, return to household life. They are truly burdened by the heavy karma of the guru's actions, in some places, "intensely deceitful" - intensely deceitful, this reading is found. This means that those who are oppressed by intense, harsh afflictions and are deceitful and wicked, have abandoned restraint and departed for home, becoming householders again, I say this.
The first objective of the third study, called the knowledge of afflictions, is complete.
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