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Practice of Celibacy
75.
A muni who has deep insight and extensive knowledge, who has subdued his passions, who is engaged in right activity, and is equipped with Knowledge, Spiritual Experience and Self-discipline) and is ever subjugating his senses, reflects on seeing (a woman bent up on seducing him) -
७६. किमेस जणो करिस्सति ? 76. Kimesa jano karissati ? 76. "What can this person (i. e. woman) do unto me? ७७. एस से परमारामो, जाओ लोगम्मि इत्थीओ। 77. Esa se para mara mo, jāo logammi itthio. 77. "Even though in this world, women are the sources of
utmost pleasure, (what happiness, can they give to
me? For, I am already happy by myself).". ANNOTATIONS 76-77. These aphorisms are comparable to the following verse of Ācārya Kundakunda;
Timiraharā jaī ditthi, jaņassa divena natthi kadavvam/ Tadha sokkham sayamadda, visaya kim tattha kuvvamti//!
"Of what use is a lamp to a person whose eyes have the power to destory the darkness? What purpose can external objects of delight serve when the Self itself is (a treasure of) happiness?"
७८. मुणिणा हु एतं पवेदितं, उब्बाहिज्जमाणे गामधम्मेहि78. Muniņā hu etaṁ paveditam, ubbáhijjamāṇe gāma
dhammehim - 78. Bhagavān Mahavira has prescribed this in the follow
ing aphorisms) to the mui tormented by sex – ७६. अवि णिब्बलासए। 1. Pravacana sāra, 67.
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