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PANCALINGĪPRAKARANAM : 43
Tā alamamiehim majjha ajjam kallam ca de caissāmi | Mokkhasuhão kimannam paramattheṇatthi sukkham ti || 21||
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Tasmādalamebhiḥ mamādyaśva ceha tyaksyāmi Moksasukhātkimanyat paramārthenāsti sukhamiti || 21 ||
Enough, therefore, of these pleasures
that I must give up today or tomorrow |
What pleasure can equal liberation?
all the rest is profound sorrow || 21 ||
21. It is for this reason that I must not have anything to do with such (misery giving) sensual worldly pleasures. Today or tomorrow I must give them up (in favour of accepting monastic ordination in order to lead a perfectly restrained life and seek spiritual emancipation). After all, which pleasure can equal the ultimate bliss of liberation?
Here, after describing the miserable nature of worldly pleasures, the author urges the reader to strive for the ultimate pleasure of liberation through spiritual emancipation and sooner or later to accept monasticism in order to get that ultimate goal.
