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ન્યાયકુસુમાંજલિ.
[ પંચમmeant by the word Upas'ama that he should keep control over anger, pride, deceit and avarice. In order to carry out these, he resorted to forgiveness, modesty, straight-forwardness and contentment.
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Then he tried to understand the meaning of Samvara. Samvara means stoppago. He began to reffect what he should stop. He thought about that it was useless to stop others to meddle with others as he wanted to attain his own welfare. This led him to the consideration if the Guru had at all advised him to stop from moving, speaking, thinking, etc. He said to himself that even if that the piece of advice given to him it was impossible for him to follow it, since it involved the complete cessation of moving, speaking, etc. After a great deal of reflection he realised that as the Guru himself moved, spoke, etc., it was not that he was advised to refrain from these activities. After a deep and deliberate consideration, he realised that there were two sorts of activities, good and bad, wherein the body and the senses played an important part. He thought of engaging himself in good activities only-the activities which did not involve the slightest injury to other living beings. Thereupon, he examined himself whether he was then engaged in such an activity or not, and came to the conclusion that as he had still kept the sword in one hand and the head of Susama in the other, he was far from it. Thinking so, he threw away at once both the things, and refrained from undesirable activities of body, speech and mind. All
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