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free from the veils of the kar ma) and begins to perceive and cognize things (in their true perspective).
ANNOTATIONS 36-37. To defeat lust with lustlessness is the principle based on creating opposite force. Just as anger is destroyed by tranquility, conceit by humility, and deceit by guilelessness, so also lust is overcome by lustlessness. Just as fasting acts as a remedy for the person afflicted by fever, so also forswearing of lust acts as a remedy for one who is afflicted with the disease of "discontentment" -
Yathāhāraparityāgaḥ, jvaratasyausadhaṁ tathā / Lobhasyaivath parityāgah, asaňtosasya h haisaja inil
Sometimes it happens that some persons get initiated into asceticism without giving up 'lust'. But if they try to conquer lust with lustlessness, they are true sādhakas. Those who are initiated into asceticism without lust, become cogniser and perceiver like Bharat, the sovereign king, through meditation by removing the veils of kar ma. obstructing knowledge and perception.
३८. पडिलेहाए णावकंखति। 38. Padilehãe ņāvakaskhati. 38. He who discerns (what is beneficial to him and what
is detrimental) does not long for (sensuality).
३६. एस अणगारेत्ति पवच्चति । 39. Esa anagăretti pavuccati. 39. He (who is not desirous of any worldly pleasures) is
called an anagara (i. e. a monk who has renounced household life).
43-AAITTOT-O ४०. अहो य राओ य परितप्पमाणे, कालाकालसमुट्ठाई,
संजोगट्ठी अट्ठालोभी, आलुपे सहसक्कारे, विणिविट्ठचित्ते, एत्थ सत्थे पुणो-पुणो।
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