Jain Journal 1967 10

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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JAIN JOURNAL
And everybody is washing his teeth. All creepers have blossomed Radiating fragrance And milkmen all Are churning curd to separate butter. Give up idleness Be at your work Cidananda is with thee Waste not your life.
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Illusion is this world Who hath known this knows the Real. All the pleasures of this body, Riches and youth Are but transcient Like the floating clouds. All are transitory Like the decomposing frame of an ox.. Says Cidananda, Have no affection for anything, Right preceptor has shown the way.
1 Mithyatva (ignorance), abirati (lack of restraint), kasaya (passions like anger, conceit, deceit and lust), pramada (unmindfulness) and yoga (activities of mind, speech and body).