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(500) The blessed personages give no consideration to what existed in the past nor to what will exist in the future. Certainly, the great sage, free from all indulgence in imagination and concentrating his thought on what existed in the present, first dries down and then annihilates (all his karnas).
(501) Undertake no bodily act, utter no word and think no thought; thus you will become steady. Certainly, supreme meditation consists in a soul engaged in concentration on itself.
(502) A mind engaged in meditation is not perturbed by miseries born of passions nor those born of inental acts nor by jealousy, remorse, sorrow etc.
(503) A brave (monk) is neither moved nor frightened by afflictions and calamities; his mind does not become infatuated in the slightest degree, not even by the celestial illusions.
(504) Just as fire favoured by wind speed.lv burns up the fuel accumulated since long, so also, the fire of meditation destroys in a moment the unlimited fuel of karmas.
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