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ADVANCED ASCETICISM (DHUTA)
३२. अणुपुव्वेण अणहियासे माणा परीसहे दुरहियासए ।
32.
32.
Anupuvvena anahiyāsemāṇā parisahe durahiyāsae.
33.
(They give up the ascetic life simply) because they are unable to endure the intolerable hardships which continue to become successively severer.
ANNOTATION 32. The hardships (rigours) fall in two categories: agreeable and disagreeable. The temptation of sensual pleasure arising out of sound, beauty, etc. is agreeable hardship. On encountering these agreeable hardships, if one indulges in sensual pleasures, and on their cessation, if one reminisces them, he cannot endure these rigours. The converse of this is equally true. The same is the case with the 'disagreeable' hardships.
३३. कामे ममायमाणस्स इयाणि वा मुहुत्ते वा अपरिमाणाए भेदे ।
33.
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Kame mamaya māṇassa iyāṇiṁ vā muhutte vā aparimāṇae bhede.
(One gives up the ascetic life) on account of infatuation with sensuality; his death may occur at that very moment or within a muhurt (i. e. 48 minutes) or any
time.
ANNOTATION 33.
The enjoyment of sensual pleasures is also not free from obstacles, death being the most unsurmountable.
३४. एवं से अंतराइएहि कामेहिं आकेवलिएहिं अवितिण्णा चेए ।
34.
Evam se amtaraiehim kamehim akevaliehim avitiņņā
cee.
34. Thus they (such people) can never overcome carnality which is fraught with many obstacles and conflicts.
ANNOTATION 34. Sensuality is always attended by obstacles, conflicts and absence of satiety. Driven by the desire of pleasure, man wants to enjoy sensual indulgence but in of his enjoyment of carnal passions, he faces
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