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- If one is oppressed, they should focus their attention on restraint or liberation. Just as a valiant warrior in the battlefield, oppressed by the valiant warriors and soldiers of the opposing side, suppresses and destroys those enemy soldiers, in the same way, a sage, afflicted by trials and tribulations, should suppress and destroy the enemy in the form of karma.
Even if one is being killed, they should desire the arrival of death. By destroying karma, one does not enter the cycle of existence, just as a chariot does not move when the axle is broken.
Commentary: Even if one is being killed by trials and tribulations, they should endure it properly. How? Just as a wooden plank, being chipped away from both sides, does not become attached to either side, in the same way, a sage, whose body is weakened and emaciated by external and internal austerities, does not become attached to either attachment or aversion, but desires the arrival of death. In this way, by destroying the eight types of karma, they do not return to the cycle of existence, which is full of birth, old age, death, disease, sorrow, etc., like a puppet show. The example is given: Just as a chariot does not move when the axle is broken, because it is without support on a level or uneven path, in the same way, a sage, by destroying the eight types of karma, does not return to the cycle of existence.
The commentary ends. The meaning is the same as before. The word "bravimi" means "I say" and should be understood as before.
The seventh study, called "Kushila Paribhasa", is complete.
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