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CHAPTER 12
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The praise of your detachment
( dara ade ) You Oh who are detachment personified! In your earlier lives, you have so often and with such intensity cultivated this quality of detachment (2021 ), that in this last birth of yours, as a Tirthankara, detachment has become
spontaneously one with you!
Oh Lord! You (who in your previous lives) on the path to Moksha that you have treaded, you have far greater detachment (e2102 ) in things of happiness (i.e.sensual pleasures) than in things of unhappiness (towards pain
ful occurances).
Thus your detachment is of the truest
variety (Ghira os ).
r of detachment! You have, by the instrument of discrimination (iacio ) polished and sharpened this instrument of detachment so very thoroughly and perfectly (in your previous lives) that in this last life of
yours, which means Liberation already achieved, its
effectiveness remains completely undiminished.
When Oh Lord! In this life, which you make use of things and pleasures of your kingdom (before his renunciation) and those that are created by the Devas (after his re
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