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suffers pain, he should have recourse to control, and subdue the foe at the head of the battle, as it were. (29)
Though beaten he should be like a plank?; he should wait for the advent of death ; having annihilated his Karman he should not again mix with the world, but be rather like a car whose axle is broken. (30)
Thus I say.
EIGHTH LECTURE,
CALLED
ON EXERTION ?
It is said that two definitions of exertion are given; but in what does the exertion of the virtuous consist, and how is it defined ? (1)
Some say that it consists in works, and the pious (say that it consists) in abstention from works. Men appear divided into two classes from this point of view. (2)
Carelessness is called (the cause of) Karman, carefulness that of the contrary (viz. absence of Karman); when the one or the other is predicated
Phalagâvatatthi = phalagavad avatashtah. Sîlânka gives the following explanation: As a plank planed on both sides becomes thin, so a sâdhu, by reducing his body by exterior and interior tapas, grows thin, of weak body.
Virya; it is the power or virtue of a thing.
