Atmanushasana

Author(s): J L Jaini
Publisher: Central Jaina Publishing House

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KTMANUSHASANA:
is excruciating. Let them be just as they are. Dost thou then remember that, like a young sapling blasted by frost, thou art made a pauper by the piercing glances and lovely smiles of females, (which are the) weapons of Cupid. उत्पन्नोऽस्यति दोषधातुमलवहेहोऽसि कोपादिवान् साधिव्याधिरसि प्रहीणचरितोऽस्यस्यात्मनो वञ्चकः । मृत्युव्याप्तमुखान्तरोऽसि जरसा ग्रस्तोऽसि जन्मिन् वृथा किं मत्तोऽस्यसि किं हितारिरहिते किं वासि बद्धस्पृहः ॥ ५४ ॥
64. O! living being thou hast taken birth; thou hast assumed a body full of defects and blood and bones, etc.; thou art subject to anger, etc., thou art subject to physical and mental suffering; thy character is very bad, thou art a cheat to thy soul; thou art lying in the wide-open mouth of death; thou art in the clutches of age. Oh why art thou deluded? Why art thou an enemy to thy own good ? And why hast thou fixed thy desires on unwholesome things ? उग्रग्रीष्मकठोरधर्मकिरणस्फूर्जद्गभस्तिप्रभैः संतप्तः सकलेन्द्रियैरयमहो संवृद्धवृष्णो जनः अप्राप्याभिमतं विवेकविमुखः पापप्रयासाकुलस्तोयोपान्तदुरन्तकर्दमगतक्षीणोऽक्षवत् क्लिश्यते ॥५॥
55. Distressed by all sense-desires, which are gleaming (and blinding) like the sun with its very hot unbearable and scorching rays; keenly athirst with desire; (and) indiscriminate,-this man, not getting his desired object (and) being troubled by sinful exertions, becomes miserable like the weak ox in a deep mire near the edge of a piece of water. -
लब्धेन्धनो ज्वलत्यग्निः प्रशाम्यति निरन्धिनः। ज्वलत्युभयथाप्युचैरहो मोहाग्निरुत्कटः॥५६ ॥
56. Fire burns when fed with fuel, and goes out for want of it. But it is a wonder that the terrible fire of