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MAHAPRATYĀKHYANA PRAKĪRNAKA : 33
97.
PROPOUNDING THE FAULTS OF NEGLIGENCE
(The aspirant must contemplate that) I must become a steadfast follower of the Jina path, and be endowed with discretion, concentration and spiritual endeavour so that (when the time of my death approaches) I may cast the body in full consciousness (in fully vigilant state of mind).
98.
The moment an aspirant becomes negligent in his monastic practices, disregards the words (teaching) of Lords Jina and careless, the thieves of spirituality, that the sense-organs are, steal his austerities and restraints.
GLORY OF STOPPAGE
99.
As the fire fanned by the wind completely reduces the roots and branches (of a tree) to ashes, so does the intellect well established in stoppage, in accordance with the words of the Lords Jina, completely burns the karma-matter.
100.
As the fire fanned by the wind completely reduces the trees and the green forests to ashes, so does the learned and endeavouring aspirant deliberately burns the karma-matter.
PROPOUNDING THE IMPORTANCE OF KNOWLEDGE 101. The karma-matter that an ignorant person sheds in billions
of years are readily shed by the enlightened aspirants in as little time as taken in one respiration.
102.
Surely, it is not possible for an aspirant, learned in twelve (primary) canons, to deliberately contemplate on their contents when the death is imminent.
103.
(Therefore,) only one phrase, from the vast Jina faith, that can awaken true detachment in him is his true knowledge.
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