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ADVANCED ASCETICISM (DHUTA)
aphorisms relating to curtailment of belongings are applicable also to the attenuation of the body. Accordingly, these aphorisms (viz. 63, 64 and 65) can be translated thus:
63. A muni who is absorbed in the acquisition of knowledge and practises austerities is blessed with the attenuation of the body.
64. Attenuation of the body facilitates for him the practice of tapa i. e. austerity.
65. Attenuation of the body which has been recommended for a muni by Bhagavan Mahāvīra should be interpreted in the same sense in which it is meant, and it should inspire the muni to practise equanimity thoroughly no one should be despised.
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६८. विस्सेणि कट्टु, परिण्णाए ।
68.
68.
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Thus, the muni observing four-months' fast should not despise another muni who has observed only one month's fast. Similarly, a muni observing fasts on alternate days should not deride one who takes his meals daily. So also, should a muni who has made a higher study than another refrain from despising him.
A muni who practises equanimity does not despise
others.
Vissenim kattu, parinnae.
A muni ought to cut across the chain of raga and dvesa (attachment and aversion) through the discernment (born of equanimity).
६९. एस तिष्णे मुत्ते विरए वियाहिए त्ति बेमि ।
69. Esa tinne mutte virae viyahie tti bemi.
69.
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He (who has cut across the chain of attachment and aversion is said to have crossed the ocean of mundane existence), to be emancipated and to have ceased (from worldly activities). I say so.
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