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Verses 17, 18
As you are suffering from delusion-fever which has resulted in severe lust (tyşņā) due to the intake of adverse food, i.e., indulgence in sense-pleasures, and as your strength is diminishing progressively, medicine comprising liquid-food, etc., (easily digestible fruit-juice, etc., and minor vows, etc.) is advised.
सुखितस्य दुःखितस्य च संसारे धर्म एव तव कार्यः । सुखितस्य तदभिवृद्ध्यै दुःखभुजस्तदुपघाताय ॥१८॥
अर्थ - हे जीव! तू चाहे सुख का अनुभव कर रहा हो और चाहे दु:ख का, किन्तु संसार में इन दोनों ही अवस्थाओं में तेरा एकमात्र कार्य धर्म ही होना चाहिये। कारण यह है कि यदि तू सुख का अनुभव कर रहा है तो वह धर्म तेरे उस सुख की वृद्धि का कारण होगा, और यदि तू दुःख का अनुभव कर रहा है तो वह धर्म तेरे उस दु:ख के विनाश का कारण
होगा।
O soul! In this world, whether you are happy or miserable, dharma* should be your only pursuit. If you are happy, dharma will increase your happiness; if you are miserable, it will remove your misery.
* Dharma implies piety or laudable conduct. In real sense, however, dharma is the disposition of equanimity (sāmya). And, equanimity is the soul's nature when it is rid of delusion (moha) and agitation (ksobha). (see Acārya Kundakunda's Pravacanasāra - Essence of the Doctrine, verse 1 - 7, p. 9.)
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