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If a creature with ears hears agreeable and disagreeable sounds, it shoud not be attached to, nor delighted with, nor desiring of, nor infatuated by, nor covetous of, nor disturbed by the agreeable or disagreeable sounds.... If it is impossible not to hear sounds which reach the ear, the mendicant should avoid love or hate, originated by them... (Tr.by H. Jacobi, p.209)
2.4 The theme of restraint in Āyārngasutta II.15, with some slight verbal variations, is also available in the older Jaina text, Isibhāsiyāim (chap. 29). A section from this collection of the teachings of Mahāvīra is included in the following:
saddaṁspta, ivādāya maņunn vā vi pāvagam maņuņņammi na rajjejjā, na padussejjā hi pāvuc (3) maņunn arajjhante adutthe iyarammi ya asutte avirodhīņam evam soe pihijati (4) rūvam cakkhuṁ vuādāya...(5) (6) gandhum ghānam uvādāya... (7) (8) rasa jibbham uvādāya (9) (10) phāsam taytam uvādāya (11) (12) (Isibhāsvāim, 29. ed. by W. Schubring)
Hearing through the ears - Pleasant words should arouse no delights Nor unpleasant ones should make annoyance One who remains unruffled and equanimous - At either of the two, He smothers karmic flow.
Again, the ear, nose, tongue and the organ of feeling are repeated.
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