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37. One does not attain liberation (merely) by the study of) scripture, if he has no faith with regard to the nature of reality; or one who has faith cannot attain Nirvāņa, if he is devoid of moral discipline,
38. The man of knowledge, who is controlled in three ways", destroys within a breath the Karma which a man devoid of knowledge could destroy in hundred thousand crores of lives.
39. Further, he, who has an atom of attachment towards body etc., cannot attain liberation, even if he knows all the scriptures.
*21. Especially in ascetic life, moral discipline is said to consist in renunciation, in abstaining from activities (leading to sin), in refraining from sensual pleasures and in destroying the passions.
40. That S'ramaņa, who has five-fold carefulness, who is controlled in three ways, who has curbed his five senses, who has subdued his passions and who is completely endowed with faith and knowledge, is called self-disciplined.
41. Enemies and the members of the family, happiness and misery, praise and censure, a clod of earth and (a lump of) gold, and even life and death are alike to the S'ramaņa.
42. He, who is simultaneously applied to (the cultivation of) the trio of right faith, knowledge and conduct, is said to have attained concentration; and he has perfect asceticism.
43. If an ignorant ascetic, accepting an external object, falls a prey to delusion, attachment or aversion, he is bound by various Karmas.
44. If an ascetic develops neither infatuation nor attachment nor aversion, he necessarily destroys various Karmas.
45. According to the (authority of the scripture the ascetics are endowed with either pure or auspicious manifestation of consciousness; amongst them, those endowed with the pure one have no Karmic influx and the rest have.
· 46. The ascetic course of conduct, resulting from auspicious
1. Mentally, vorbally and physically. 2. Compare P. 135.
