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cious activities (or mental condition), they (merely) occasion a sensual thirst to all the beings among whom the gods come last (in the order of enumeration )1.
75. Moreover those beings, with their thirst enhanced, pained with desires and burning with misery, hanker after the pleasures of senses and experience them till their death.
76. Happiness derived through sense-organs is dependent, amenable to disturbances, terminable, a cause of bondge and dangerous; and hence it is misery in disguise.
77. He, who does not admit that there is no difference between merit and demerit, wanders in this horrible and boundless transmigratory existence muffled in delusion.
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78. Thus, knowing the nature of reality, he who does not entertain attachment or aversion for any object, destroys all physical pain, being endowed with pure manifestation of consciousness.
79. Having abandoned sinful activities and proceeding on the path of auspicious conduct, if one does not abandon delusion etc., he cannot realize the pure self.
5. He is the God who is known for his austerities and self-control, who is pure, who paves the path of heaven and liberation, who is worshipped by the lords of Amaras and Asuras and who stands at the summit of the physical world.
*6. Those men attain eternal happiness who salute the God among the gods of gods, who is foremost among the great saints, and who is the preceptor of the three worlds.
80. He, who knows the Arahanta with respect to substantiality, quality and modification, realizes himself; and his delusion, in fact, dwindles into destruction.
81. The soul, being free from delusion and having grasped well the reality of the self, realizes the pure self, if it abandons attachment and aversion.
82. It is in this way that even all the Arahantas have destroyed portions of Karmas; preaching the same they attained Nirvana: my obeisance to them.
1. TS. VIII, 10.
