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The enemy, though very powerful, yet (even when) greatly offended, does not bring about that harm which both the unrestrained attachment and aversion occasion. For the Jiva distressed by the sufferings of birth, old age, and death, there is no happiness in the world Therefore, (for him) liberation alone is the proper object to be accepted O virtuous (one) ! if you desire to cross the deep ocean of mundane existence, accept, being quick, the means of austerity and self-restraint. To remain under the control of all these, namely, greatly paralysing demerits, the idea of doing away with spiritual awakening and virtues (because they seem to be unfruitsul in this competetive world) and the vices of attachment and aversion, (to remain under the control of all these) should not be relished. whatever bodily and mental suffering exists in the hfe of all men along with gods, that arises only from great attachment to desires But the dispassionate one puts an end to that suffering That by virtue of which detachment results should be pursued with complete devotedness The completely detached person becomes free from Karmic bondage But the attached one is not the destroyer of Kármic bondage. By sensual enjoyments which arse from the constant dwelling upon the sense-objects, the desire for sensuous things is aggravated in the midst of ordinary person Consequently, indeed, in the midst of his own desires, cquanimity is intensely generated by the person desirous of enlightenment From the transcendental standpornt, this body is different (from the self) and the self is also different (from the body) (Therefore), from the body remove attachment which is unpleasent and greatly distressful For cnlightenment, sense-attachment and channels of Kärmic influx should be thwarted Besides, the passions should be annihilated through the triplc agency (of mind, body and speech) cach multiplicd by three ways (of acting commanding and consenting)
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