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Pure Life (Bambhacerāim)
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the sinew, the bones, the bone marrow, [and this) purposefully [or] purposelessly; some slay [animals] because they have allegedly hurt them, some because they allegedly [at present] hurt them, some because they will allegedly hurt them.)*
Capable [indeed] of disgust of the inconstant (life of animals),26 having an
eye for (their) fear, recognizing [these] as bringing injury, [6.] (Whoever knows about his own soul, knows well (also] beyond [his self]; whoever knows well beyond (his self], knows about his own soul: this equation I have known (already a long time].)
the?? prudent ones who have gone to peace do not desire to live [any more). $ (Truly, I say:) there are beings who are subjected (in flight) to collision; and in some cases they collide (in the act]. (If, now, [these] suffer contact, some (of them) shrivel away; those showever] here who here (72) shrivel away suffer torment thereby; those [however) who suffer torment here, perish thereby.)*
know, 28 that here too (some such persons in monastic life, nevertheless,] take upon themselves (something new still] ([namely,] those for whom the pious mode of life does not bring joy): by praising activity they speak of obedience; led by arbitrariness, slaves of their senses, devoted to activity they cause a connection [to the world]. (Whoever (on the other hand,] is wealthy, because he possesses intellectual power, who has thought through everything, does not know for a long time (any more about unallowed wicked action.)*
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26 Compare here Süy. I 12, 17: bhūyâhisankāě dugumchamāņā. 27 See fn. 24 above. (For this equation I have known" in the previous line see Bollée 1988, p. 78 (WB).) 28 See fn. 20 above.
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