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128
ĀYARO
(A self-indulgent) person remains engrossed in (such memory and fantasy as) "I did this or I shall do that". He is excessively deceitful. Stupefied by his own actions, he, once again, yearns for (acquiring means of sensual enjoyments).
ANNOTATION 134: A stupefied person is he who has become nonplussed due to his over-busyness (i.e. mental worry to do this or that). Such a stupefied persons begets sufferings when he longs for happiness. Due to excitement, he cannot do things like sleeping, bathing and eating at the right time. He remains lost in reveries. So deeply does he get entangled in imaginary problems, that he utterly loses sight of the real ones, like the proverbial flying Dutchman (the eternal day-dreamer).
१३५. वेरं वड्ढेति अप्पणो। 135. Veram vaddheti appano. 135. (Indulging in deceit and greed, ) he incurs the enmity
(of all and sundry)?.
१३६. जमिणं परिकहिज्जइ, इमस्स चेव पडिवूहणयाए। 136. Ja minam parikahijjai, imassa ceva padivūhannyae.
136. Whatever I have said (viz. that a voluptuous person
indulges in deceits and increases enmity) means (he does so) for nourishment of this (human body).
ANNOTATION 136: Sex and hunger these are two natural instincts. In order to satiate them, one wants to exercise authority over others. Canons of materialism prescribe the means of satiating them, while ihose of spiritualism prescribe the means of forbearing them. In the words of a spiritualist, the means are -
mśiśnodara -kyte partha?
Pythivim jetumicchasi, 1. Cf. Su jagadanga, 1/9/2,3.
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