Gaina sutras

Author(s): Hermann Jacobi
Publisher: Clarendon Perss

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BOOK I, LECTURE 5, LESSON 3.
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is no such danger). Knowing that that which is well understood is well practised, man! with thy eyes on the highest good, be victorious (in control). Among such men only is real Brahmanhood. Thus I say. (4)
I have heard this, and it is in my innermost heart; and the freedom from bonds is in your innermost heart. He who has ceased (to have worldly attachments), the houseless, suffers with patience a long time.
The careless stand outside, the careful lead a religious life.
Maintain rightly this state of a sage. Thus I say. (5)
THIRD LESSON.
Many are not attached to something in this world, they are not attached to it among these (householders). He is a wise man who has heard and understood the word of the learned ones. Without partiality the law has been declared by the noble ones, As I have destroyed here1 the connection with the world, so is the connection elsewhere difficult to destroy. Therefore I say: One should not abandon firmness. (1) Some who early exert themselves, do not afterwards slide back; some who early exert themselves, afterwards slide back; those who do not early exert themselves, (can of course) not slide back. That man also is of this description 2, who knowing the world (as worthless nevertheless) follows its ways. Knowing this, it has been declared by the sage.' Here the follower of the com
mean, in the church of Mahavira,
1 Here' and 'elsewhere' and in that of the Tirthikas.
2 Belongs to the last category, to which belong the Sakyas, &c.