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is unthinkable : what is the nature of birth, death and Samsara ? (2). As is birth, thus also is death : there is no difference between the living and the dead. (3). Whoever here has fear of birth and death, let him entertain hope for obtaining mercury and alchemic elixir (to prolong youth and life-span). (4). Those gods who freely move over the whole world of the moving and non-moving, they are also not free from old age and death. (5). Is Karman due to birth or is birth due to Karman ? Saraha says that law is beyond thought.(6).
चर्यागीति २३ [ भुसुकुपाद]
[राग : वराडि] जइ तुम्हे (?) भुसुक्कु आहेडएँ जाइहिसि मारिहिसि पंच जणा । णलिणि-वणहिँ पइसंतउ होहिसि एक्क-मणा ॥ १ जीवंतउ हुइअउ विहाणएँ मरिअउ रअणिहिँ । गहणे विणु मासें भुसुक्कु पउम-वणे ण पइसिहिइ ।। २ माआ-जालु पसारिअ बंधिअ माआ-हरिणि । सदगुरु-बोहें बुज्झिअ रे कासु [कहिअइ] कहाणि ॥ ३
(संस्कृत छाया) यदि यूयं(?) भुसुकु: आखेटके यास्यसि मारयिष्यसि पञ्च जनान् । नलिनी-वने प्रविशन् भविष्यसि एक-मनाः ॥ १ जीवन् भूतः प्रभाते मृतः राजन्यां । गहने विना मांसं भुसुकुः पद्म-वने प्रविक्षति ॥ २ माया-जालं प्रसार्य बद्धा माया-हरिणी । सद्गुरु-बोधेन बुद्धाः रे कस्मै कथ्यते कथा ॥ ३
[23] If, O Bhusuku, you go for hunting, you must kill the five persons. Thereupon entering the Lotus-grove you must be singleminded. (1). Living in the morning he was dead at night. Without
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