Atmanushasana

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

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ÁTMÁNUSHÁSANA.
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enjoyments, and adored by beautiful women with lotus eyes charming in their agility, is on acquisition of discrimination (subjected to such austerities in the forest) that the she-deer takes thee for a land-lotus in a burnt down wood, then all praise be to thee.
बाल्ये वेत्सि न किञ्चिदप्यपरिपूर्णागो हितं वाहिते कामान्धः खलु कामिनी द्रुमघन भ्राम्यन्वने यौवने । मध्ये वृद्धवृषाजितुं वसुपशुः क्लिश्नासि कृष्यादिभिवृद्धो वा मृतः क जन्मफलिते धर्मो भवेन्निर्मलः ॥८६॥
89. In thy boyhood, when thy body is immature, thou dost not know anything whatsoever as to thy benefit or harm; in thy youth, blinded by sex-passion, thou, ramblest in a forest, dense with trees in the form of women; in thy middle age, thou sufferest because of thy great greed; like a loaded beast, by agriculture, etc., pursued to earn (money), and in thy old age, thou art as if half-dead. Which, then, (is the age) when life should bear fruit in pure Dharma. बाल्येऽस्मिन् यदनेन ते विरचितं स्मर्तुं च तन्नोचितं मध्ये चापि धनार्जनव्यतिकरैस्तन्नार्पितं यत्त्वयि । वार्द्धक्येऽप्यभिभूय दन्तदलनाद्यच्चेष्टितं निष्ठुरम् पश्याद्यापि विधेर्वशेन चलितुं वाञ्छस्यहो दुभते ॥१०॥
90. In thy boyhood whatsoever is done by thee is not fit even to be remembered ; in thy middle age there is no (pain) that is not given to thee by the troubles of acquiring riches ; (and) even in thy old age (thou seest) the (Karma's) cruel act of despising thee by rooting out thy teeth. Oh fool, See, dost thou still wish to live under the control of Karma.
अश्रोत्रीव तिरस्कृता परतिरस्कारश्रुतीनां श्रुतिः चक्षुर्वीक्षितुमक्षम तव दशां दूष्यामि वान्ध्यं गतम् ।