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The offering of Distics (Doha pahuda)
179 17. The bl188 of the senser lasts for (a) day (or) two, in return, there is a series of miseries
being mistaken, o soul, do not bring an axe against your Self, your trunk, 18. Brush it with powder, anolgt it with oll, give it exercise and refined food
all this (care) for the body is valo, like service done to villains. 19. With this body shaky, soiled, wortbless,
why not take this course of) action which will become firm, atsiologs, worthy ? 20. Better (resort) to poison, better to polson jus gaake, better to fire, better resort to living in the forest,
but not living with the heretic8,-which is against the Jiga'a Law. 21. These people have eradicated the radical virtues, and they cling to the additional virtues.
just like monkeys having dropped from the branches, they have fallen down violently, and been broken! 22. If the Self has been understood to be eternal, to have omniscienco for its own nature,
then, poor man, how can love still be bostowed on the body ? 23. There is no place on earth, among the eighty four hundrod thousands of rebirths
where this soul bas not wandered if it does not come up against the Jina's word. 24 The muni in whose mind knowledge doca not flash-(while) creating the cause of karmans,
he does not reach bliss, (even) if he has in mind all the treatises. 25 Deprived of the knowledge and faith, o soul, you considor as reality the reverse
you call Self the phenomena built up by the karmans. 26. « am fair, I am dark, I am different in colour:
I have a thin body, I am fat" : 0 sou), don't consider like this. 27. You are not a pundit, nor a fool, nor a Jord, nor Unsupported,
Dor a guru, nor some student. all those are but a distinction (coming) from the karmaps.
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You are nelther cause nor effect, nor a master nor a servent, (nor) a brave nor a coward, nor superlor nor humblo.
