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MAHĀPRATYĀKHYĀNA PRAKĪRNAKA : 15
36.
The vows that are aot flawed by the dispositions of attachment and aversion are said to be dispositionally flawless.
37.
THE SERMON ON DETACHMENT While wandering in the infinite cycle of births and deaths, this soul has drunk so much of milk out of respective mothers' breasts that its quantity is more than the water of the ocean.
38.
Know that (while wandering in various painful and miserable worldly existences) this soul has wept so much that the total quantity of tears that it has shed is more than the water of the ocean.
39.
There is not even as small a place as the tip of a hair in this vast world where this soul has not taken birth and died during its worldly wanderings.
There are said to be eighty-four hundred thousand main divisions of various types of worldly existences. In each of these categories the soul has taken birth and died infinite number of times.
41.
PROPOUNDING ENLIGHTENED DEATH Numerous times I have died ignorant deaths in the upper, lower and middle worlds. Therefore, remembering them I shall now die an enlightened death.
42.
Remembering (that) the relations such as mother-father, brother-sister and son-daughter (cannot shelter anyone from inevitable death), I shall die the enlightened death.
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