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**Shadow:** This is to be observed, it is in accordance with the ultimate goal.
_ The monk, free from attachment and ego, should follow the path prescribed by the Jinas. _
**Translation:** Understanding the above statement, right faith, knowledge, and conduct are the path to liberation. Knowing this, the monk, free from attachment and ego, should follow the path of Dharma, characterized by detachment.
**Commentary:** Furthermore, those who are devoid of Dharma, being tormented by their own actions, have no refuge in this world or the next. This has been stated before. The wise man, understanding this, and knowing that right faith, knowledge, and conduct are the cause of the ultimate goal - liberation or self-control - should follow them. Discarding all this, and because the word ending in "ktva" implies an action in the past, it requires another action. Therefore, it is said: He is free from attachment because he has renounced attachment to external and internal objects. He is free from ego because he has renounced ego, which arises from past wealth, birth, etc., or from austerity, study, and gain. Therefore, he is free from attachment and aversion. Such a monk should follow the path prescribed by the Jinas, the path that is related to the Jinas, the path that is prescribed by them.
**Commentary Meaning:** Those who are devoid of Dharma, being tormented by their own actions, have no refuge in this world or the next. This has been stated before. The wise man, understanding this, and knowing that right faith, knowledge, and conduct are the cause of the ultimate goal - liberation or self-control - should follow them. He should not have attachment to external and internal objects. Grammatically, the word ending in "ktva" implies an action in the past, therefore it requires another action. Therefore, the author has stated it in this way. The virtuous person should not have ego arising from past wealth, birth, etc., or from austerity, study, and gain, but should be free from attachment and aversion. Living in this way, he should follow the path prescribed by the Tirthankaras.
**Shadow:** Giving up wealth, sons, relatives, and possessions.
Giving up internal sorrow, he should wander without attachment.
**Translation:** A person should give up wealth, sons, relatives, possessions, and internal sorrow, and wander without attachment, free from all desires and attachments.
**Commentary:** Furthermore, the mind that has understood the nature of the world, knowing what is to be known, should give up what? Giving up wealth, material possessions, and sons. The word "sons" is used because there is greater affection for them. Giving up relatives, and giving up possessions, which are the form of attachment and ego. In the figure of speech, "anta" means "ending," so "antanga" means "difficult to give up" or "destructive." "Antaka" means "destructive" or "going within oneself." Giving up such sorrow, such distress. Giving up the stream of karma, which is characterized by delusion, non-restraint, negligence, and passions, and which is the door to karma. Another reading is "chichcha na nantaga soyam," which means "going within."