Atmanushasana

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

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चरणमपि कि स्पृष्टुं शक्ताः पराभवपांशवो वदत तपसोऽप्यन्यन्मान्यं समीहितसाधनम् ॥११३॥
113. What happiness does (a man) see in those who are oppressed by the hot winds of wealth. Can this wicked Desire, hunter-like, spoil (the character of a good man)? Can the dust of humiliation even touch the feet (of an ascetic)? Tell me, if there be any other laudable means except asceticism, of attaining (liberation). इहैव सहजान रिपून्विजयते प्रकोपादिकान् गुणाः परिणमन्ति यानसुभिरप्ययं वाञ्छति । पुरश्च पुरुषार्थसिद्धिरचिरात् स्वयं यायिनी नरो न रमते कथं तपसि तापसंहारिणी ॥११४॥
114. In this very (world, the ascetic) vanquishes (his) enemies, anger and other (passions), and acquires merits which (one) wishes for even by (laying down one's) life. The success of human efforts (Liberation) comes in front, of itself. Why does not a man then take delight in austerity, the annihilator of pain. तपोऽवल्यां देहः समुपचितपुण्यार्जितफल: शलावग्रे यस्य प्रसव इव कालेन गलितः। व्यशुष्यचायुष्यं सलिलमिव संरक्षितपयः ।.. स धन्यः संन्यासाहुतभुजि समाधानचरमम् ॥११॥
115. Blessed is he whose body drops down like the flower at the end of an unripe fruit, after having produced the full grown fruit of merit in the creeper of austerity; and whose (stream of) life, (having attained) complete self-realization is dried up in the fire of asceticism, like water protecting milk.
श्रमी प्ररूढवैराग्यास्तनुमप्यनुपाल्य यत् । तपस्यन्ति चिरं तद्धि ज्ञातं ज्ञानस्य वैभवम् ॥११६॥
116. Know this as the glory of knowledge that these spritually-advanced ascetics practise austerities for long, and take care of the body also...........