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thought-process
"Kāma jānāmi te mulam, samkalpāt kila jāyase/ Samkalpam na kariṣyāmi, tena me na bhaviṣyasi// "
"O Cupid! I know you are born out of thoughtprocesses. I shall not indulge in them. Consequently, you shall not be born in my mind."
Six means of sublimating passions have been advocated in the aphorisms 79 to 84. Out of these, the first three are related to diet, and the remaining viz. the urdhva - sthana, undertaking journeys on foot, and ceasing from thoughts about sex are respectively related to physical exercise, hard work and mental equilibrium. Out of these means, that which suits him. the most should be practised by a sadhaka.
According to the author of the Curni, this therapy for the malady of passions is prescribed for a less intelligent muni. But a scholarly muni should be cured of this malady by keeping himself busy in scriptural studies and their assimilation.
८५. पुण्यं दंडा पच्छा फासा, पुव्वं फासा पच्छा दंडा ।
85.
AYARO
85.
(In some cases) suffering precedes (sensual) pleasure, (whereas in some other) pleasure precedes suffering. ANNOTATION 85. Sensual pleasures are always accompanied by suffering, be it before them or after them. They never go unpunished. People who indulge in them have to suffer.
Puvvam damda paccha phasă, puvvaṁ phāsā paccha da mḍā
८६. इच्छेते कलहासंगकरा भवंति । पडिलेहाए आगमेत्ता आणवेज्जा ang fer fr
86.
86. Iccete kalahāsaṁgakarā bhavamti. Paḍilehāe āgametta āṇavejjā aņāsevaṇāe tti bemi.
These sensual pleasures result in quarrel and attachment. Bearing in mind the Instructions of the
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