Atmanushasana

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

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THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE JAINAS.
77. What brave person (literally Killer) is capable of counteracting the cruel Karma who alone has distressed all (mundane souls) with intoxication and delusion just as he pleased, like a thug, in this frightful and dense forest of the world. कदा कथं कुतः कस्मिन्नित्यतयः स्वलोऽन्तकः । प्रामोत्येव किमित्याध्वं यतध्वं श्रेयसे बुधाः ॥ ७८ ॥
18. Wicked death is certainly overtaking all; it cannot be guessed as to when, how, whence, for whom, and in which way (it comes). Let all wise men look to their welfare.
असामवायिकं मृत्योरेकमालोक्य कश्चन । देशं कालं विधि हेतुं निश्चिन्ताः सन्तु जन्तवः ॥ ७९ ॥
79. May all living beings be free from anxiety on seeing that Death is sudden and has no (fixed) place, time, mode, and cause.
अपिहितमहाघोरदारं न किं नरकापदामुपकृतवतो भूयः किं तेन चेदमपाकरोत् । कुशलविलयज्वालाजाले कलत्रकलेवरे कथमिव भवानत्र प्रीतः पृथग्जनदुर्लभे ॥८० ॥
80. Why are you attached to the body of women, which is difficult of acquisition by every man, which is like a net of flames, destroying welfare. Is it (body) not an open and terrible gate to the miseries of hell ? Of what use is it to thee ? It has wronged (you), who have often done it good (nourished it). व्यापत्पर्वमयं विरामविरसं मूलेऽप्यभोग्योचितं विष्वक क्षुत्क्षतपातकुष्टकुथिताधुग्रामयैः छिद्रितम् । मानुष्यं घुणभक्षितेक्षुसदृशं नाम्नैकरम्यं पुननिःसारं परलोकबीजमचिरात्कृत्वेह सारीकुरु ॥८१॥
81. As a sugarcane eaten up by Ghuna worms, (is) full of joints (at intervals), tasteless at the (outer) end,