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Sayings of Śri Vijayadharma Sūri
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[ 74 ] The preservation of virility in its intactness means selfpreservation.
[ 75 ] When protecting our virility, we protect, as it were, a popular and just king : for virility is the ruler of the body.
[76] After squeezing the juice out of sugar-cane, nothing remains but dry fibres. Just so the consumption of your virility leaves your body worthless — an empty case as it were.
[ 77 ] True monks are those who, living on alms, wander about on earth for their own and others' benefit.
[ 78 ] The monk, who lives in constant celibacy, never ought to face such circumstances nor to engage in such practices, as offer opportunities of violating his chastity.
[ 79 ) People living in complete celibacy ought to keep aloof from all talk concerning the other sex, which is so capable of increasing sensual desire.
[80] Food which serves to increase erotic desire ought to be strictly avoided by people observing celibacy.
[81] He who eats little verily eats much.
( 82 ) The pulling out of the hair, severe penances, exposing one's body to the five fires, and thousands of other severe ascetical practices are useless, where chastity is destroyed.
[ 83 ] He who transgresses his limits has to pass his whole life in constant fear, sorrow and uneasiness.
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