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of being attained with efforts. (comparative degree of farther.
People, addicted to worldly pleasures, take as the best medical remedy, the very things which are the causes of hunger, thirst, emotion and anger. But, the best of ascetics thinking them to be independent, transitory and attainable with efforts, keep themselves aloof from them.
Notes:-The worldly people think to gratify their hunger, thirst etc., by delicious food and flavoury drinks etc. but these articles, on the contrary, serve to create keener appetites, and more irresistible desires for their attainment. So, with these considerations, the ascetics, who understand, the true nature of things, employ other means as austerities, penances, chastity and forbearance, to do away with these evils.
* Verse 19.
गृहीतलिङ्गस्य च वेद्धनाशा !... गृहीतलिङ्गी विषयाभिलाषी ।
