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The Offering of Distics (Dohapahuda)
"Understand, understand the Jina "
40 One says
Whom else, friend, should one understand
if the Self has been understood as distinct from the body, as made of knowledge?
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41 One says: "Bow, bow to the Jina !" To whom (else) should one bow, frlend, on this earth,
If the ultimate reality has been understood of the (Self) who'dwells in oue's own body?
42. O yogi, so that (your mind) your camel can graze in the lotus-bed, release the halter
he whose mind had attained the imperishable (and) healthy (state), how could he- a wise man take delight in this world?
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Don't slacken your hold restrain one, the tongue;
woman.
of the five senses! Restrain two
and the second one, (contact with) anothor
44. The five bulls have not been guarded, you have not gone into the Nandanavana,
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neither the Self has been known, nor the other, so you have gone into homelessness !
45. The affection of your beloved, dear companion, has fixed outside on five rivals;
his return is not seen-the miserable man who has joined with another 1
46. The mind knows the (real) teaching when he sleeps without preoccupation,
he who joins his thoughts with the (Self) who has no thoughts, unthinkable (supreme Self),
then achieves the unpreoccupied state
47. For those who stick to the (right) road, contemplating before (themselves),
If a thorn pricks their foot,-let it prick !
tboy are not culpable,
48. Leave (him), leave (him), quite free; let him go where he thinks,
let him advance towards the great city of Perfection
don't feel joy or sadness.
49. The mind has joined the supreme Lord, and the supreme Lord the mind;
both remain having become identical. to whom should I address my
puja ?
