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[are] like deadly poison for a man who is striving after self[realisation]. 57. He should not think over the formation of any part of the body [and] of the gait, speech, and eye of women, as they promote desire and love. 58. He should not give room to an inclination for pleasant objects of the senses, having recognised the perpetual change of these corpuscular atoms. 59. [And] when he has recognised (this), he should live without any thirst (for experience] and with a cool heart. 60. The creed, which [once] made him leave his home for the very last change, that [creed] he should keep, [persevering] in the virtue approved of by the teachers. 61. He should always carry on the well-known fasting, the function of self-control and of study. Like a chief with bent bow at the head of his army he is master of himself and of other (people). 62. Of a [monk] who is devoted to study and to pious meditation, who protects [himself] from temptations, has a good heart, [and] is devoted to fasting, (any) previously caused stain (on the soul] will disappear, like a stain on silver (will be] brought -away by fire. 63. Such a [monk] who bears (all] pains, has subdued his senses, possesses knowledge of tradition, is without egotism and property, shines forth, when the cloud of - Karman has disappeared, like the moon at the definitive removal of the cloudy veil. Thus I say.
9. Devotion to Discipline.
First Part. 1. From conceit, anger, pride, [or] carelessness [a monk] will not learn good conduct towards the Guru. On those [faults] his low [spiritual] state is based and they shall make him perish, as the fruit of the reed [makes perish the very plant which has produced it). 2. And those who, knowing the guru to be of a limited intellect, young for] not very learned, mock him - [these] do wrong and offend the Guru. 3. There are some who, though by nature of a limited intellect [or] young, (still] are endowed with knowledge and intelligence, [and] who, practising good conduct [and] standing firm in [their] good qualities would, when mocked, burn [to ashes the imprudent one like a flame. 4. He who annoys a snake seeing that it is
