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Samsára and suffer for their deeds. This place of safety has been proclaimed (by the Tirthakaras):
24. He who guards his soul, subdues his senses, puts a stop to the current of the Samsára and is free from Asravas, is entitled to expound the pure, complete, unparalleled Law.
25. Those who do not know this Laro, are not awakened, though they fancy themselves awakened ; believing themselves awakened, they are beyond the boundary of right faith.
26. Eating seeds and drinking cold water' and what has been especially prepared for them, they enter upon ineditation, but are ignorant of the truth, and do not possess carefulness.
27,28. As dhankas, herons, ospreys, cormorants, and pheasants meditate upon capturing fish, which is a sinful and very low meditation, so some heretical, unworthy Sramaņas contemplate the pursuit of pleasures ; they are sinful and very low like herons.
29. Here some weak-minded persons, abusing the pure path, enter upon a wrong path. They thereby will go to misery and destruction,
30,31. As a blind-born man getting into a leaky boat wants to reach the shore, but is drowned during the passage ; so some unworthy, heretical Sramaņas, having got into the full current of the Samsára, will incur great danger.
32. But knowing this Law which has been 1 Jacobi reads viodaga for biodaga=Skt. atongen.
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