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UTTARADHYAYANA.
54. By watchfulness of speech he keeps free from prevarication; thereby he enables his mind to act properly. (54)
55. By watchfulness of the body he obtains Samvaral; thereby he prevents sinful Asravas. (55)
56. By discipline of the mind he obtains concentration of his thoughts; thereby he obtains development of knowledge, which produces righteousness and annihilates wrong belief. (56)
57. By discipline of the speech he obtains development of faith, whereby he acquires facility of becoming enlightened, and destroys preventing causes. (57)
58. By discipline of the body he obtains development of conduct, which causes him to conduct himself according to the regulation ; thereby he destroys the four remnants of Karman which even a Kêvalin possesses 2 ; after that he obtains perfection, enlightenment, deliverance, and final beatitude, and he puts an end to all misery. (58)
59. By possession of knowledge he acquires an understanding of words and their meaning; thereby he will not perish in the forest of the fourfold Samsara ; as a needle with its thread will not be lost, thus the soul possessing the sacred lore: will not be lost in the Samsara ; he performs all prescribed actions relating to knowledge, discipline, austerities, and conduct, and well versed in his
1 For Samvara and Âsrava, see above, p. 55, note 1, and p. 73, note 2. * See above, $ 41.
Here is a pun on the word sutta=sútra, which means thread and Sätra, sacred lore, or knowledge acquired by the study of the Sätras.
