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apply oneself earnestly to study, and to ponder zealously on the meaning of the Satras. (3)
A Sramana engaged in austerities, who longs for righteousness', should eat the proper quantity of allowed food, should select a companion of right understanding, and should live in a place suited to seclusion. (4)
If he does not meet with a clever companion who surpasses or equals him in virtue, he should live by himself, abstaining from sins and not devoted to pleasures. (5)
As the crane” is produced from an egg, and the egg is produced from a crane, so they call desire 3 the origin of delusion, and delusion the origin of desire. (6)
Love and hatred are caused by Karman, and they say that Karman has its origin in delusion; Karman is the root of birth and death, and birth and death they call misery. (7)
Misery ceases on the absence of delusion, delusion ceases on the absence of desire, desire ceases on the absence of greed, greed ceases on the absence of property. (8)
I shall explain in due order the means which must be adopted by him who wants to thoroughly uproot love, hatred, and delusion. (9)
Pleasant food 4 should not be enjoyed with preference, for it generally makes men over-strong®; and desires rush upon the strong, like birds upon a tree with sweet fruits. (10)
- Samadhi; the Dipikâ explains it by gñânadarsanakâritralabha.
? Balâka. S Trishna. Rasa. Driptikara.
