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9. Death Foolish and Wise.
S. B. E. S, VOL. XLV., p 20. 1. In this ocean of life with its currents viz. births difficult to cross, one man has reached the opposite shore ; one wise man has given an answer to the following question.
2. These two ways of life ending with death have been declared : death with one's will and death against one's will.
3. Death against one's will is that of ignorant men, and it happens to the same individual many times. Death with one's will is that of wise nen and at besti it happens but once.
4. Mahávíra has thus described the first kind in which an ignorant man, being attached to pleasures, does very cruel actions.
5. A man attached to pleasures and amusements will be caught in the trap of deceit. He thinks : “I never saw the next world, but I have seen: with my own eyes the pleasures of this life.”
6. The pleasures of this life are as it were in your hand, but the future one's are uncertain2. Who knows whether there is a next world or not?
7. The fool boasts : " I shal have the coin pany?
1. Viz, in the case of a Kevalin. Other sages die seven or eight times before reaching mukti. | 2. জালিয়া (Skt. জালিজা), doubtful as regards the time when they will be enjoyed.
3. ie., I shall do as people generally do, riz, enjoy plea.
Bures.
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