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UTTARADHYAYANA.
5. Abstaining to meditate on painful and sinful things', one should, with a collected mind, engage in pure meditations on the Law; this the wise call meditation. (35)
6. If a monk remains motionless when lying down, sitting, or standing upright, this is called abandoning of the body, which is the sixth kind (of internal austerities). (36)
If a sage truly performs these two kinds of austerities, he will soon be thoroughly released from the Circle of Births. (37)
Thus I say,
THIRTY-FIRST LECTURE.
MODE OF LIFE?
I shall declare the mode of life that benefits the soul ; by practising it many souls have crossed the ocean of Samsâra. (1)
One should desist from one thing, and practise another : desist from neglect of self-control, and practise self-control. (2)
Love and hatred are two evils which produce bad
1 This is the artaraudrad hyâna.
? This lecture offers many difficulties to the translator, as it contains scarcely more than a dry list of articles of the Gaina faith. To fully understand or interpret it would require an accurate knowledge of the complete religious system of the Gainas, to which we can lay no claim at present. The order in which the articles are given follows the number of their subdivisions. In some cases the number is not given in the Sûtra, but is supplied by the commentary,
