Atmanushasana

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

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रे धनेन्धनसंभारं प्रक्षिप्याशाहुताशने । ज्वलन्तं मन्यते भ्रान्तः शान्तं संधुक्षणे क्षणे ॥ ८५ ॥
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85. What a deluded soul it is who having fed the fire of desire with the faggot of wealth, (i. e., worldly objects, and himself) burning (in it) considers himself refreshed while he is blowing (the fire) every moment.
पलितच्छुलेन देहान् निर्गच्छति शुद्धिरेव तव बुद्धेः । कथमिव परलोकार्थे जरी वराकस्तदा स्मरति ॥ ८६ ॥
86. Under the pretence of grey hair, the (essence or) purity of thy wisdom goes out of the body; how can a wretched old man remember at that age (his duty) for the next world ?
इष्टार्थायदवाप्ततद्भव सुखेताराम्भसि प्रस्फुरन्नानामान सदुःखवाडव शिखासंदीपिताभ्यन्तरे । मृत्यूत्पत्तिजरातरंगचपले संसारघोरार्णवे । मोहग्राह विदारितास्यविवराद्दूरेचरा दुर्लभाः ॥ ८७ ॥
87. It is difficult to find men, who keep at a distance from the wide gaping mouth of the alligator of Delusion in the vast ocean of Samsára, full of salt water of worldly enjoyments (incapable of quenching the thirst), produced by desired objects. (The) heart (of Samsára) is inflamed by various kinds of excruciating mental sufferings which are burning like the flame of the sub-marine fire (Barawánala) and is disturbed by the waves of birth, old age, and death.
अव्युच्छिन्नैः सुखपरिकरैललिता लोलरम्यै: श्यामांगीनां नयनक मलैरर्चिता यौवनान्तम् ।
धन्योऽसि त्वं यदि तनुरिधं लब्धबोधे मृगीभिदग्धारण्यस्थलकमलिनीशङ्कयालोक्यते ते ॥ ८८ ॥
88. If this body of thine which has, in the full bloom of thy youth, been nourished by a continuous series of