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Bhagyam Sūtra 32
The possessions are of three kinds: body, karma and things. Some people renounce the things but have clinging to the body, and this body becomes a source of great fear for them. Look closely at the conduct of the people. Just as they produce terrible fear on account of their clinging to wealth and property, exactly so their clinging to body28 is the source of terrible fear. 5.33 ee samge avijāṇato.
For the ignorant these things are sources of temptation. Bhagyam Sutra 33
These things and the body are the causes of temptation for the ignorant,30 that is, they are the sources of attachment. Here the Sūtra has clarified that things are not the producers of temptation by themselves. They produce temptation to an ignorant person. They cannot do so in the case of the enlightened person.31 5.34 se supadibuddham sūvanīyam ti naccā, purisā! paramacakkhū!
viparakkamā. The fact that the possessions are the cause of great fear is clearly known and illustrated. You, the possessor of the eye of wisdom as you are, should exert for restraining the passion
of possessiveness. Bhāsyam Sūtra 34
It has been well understood and well explained by the seers that possession is the cause of great fear. Knowing that it has been explained to the disciples by well-ascertained reasons, you who are a person of great vision should exert properly and in various ways for the fulfillment of the virtue of non-possession. 5.35 etesu ceva bambhaceram ti bemi.
Celibacy finds its fulfilment only in the practitioner of restraint with respect to possessions — thus do I say.
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