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The Offering of Distics (Dohapahuda)
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to such circumstances, poor man, very few remember the god (withia them.) 104. He whoso pleasant mind bas halted outside the mind, having broken with the (five) elements,
lot him move about as he thinks there will be nelther danger nor transmigration, 105. By murdering the livlog soula, 000 goes to hell, by offering (them) protection, there is heaven.
those) twin paths havo been shown to you): stick to that one whero one thinks (it is right). 106. The happiness of the sonsos) lasts for (a) day (or) two; in return, thore is a & series of miserios.
My heart, I instruct you make an enclosure (of your thoughts.
107 O foolish man, one should not dolight 10 (one's) body, the body is not the Self,
contemplate the Self as distinct from the body (and) made of knowledgo.
108. As a small cottage for the breaths, such is your body, my girl,
(/Just as there are cottagos, for candalas, so there are crows, my glol).
Concentrate your affection, o yogi, in that place where the Lord of breathing (creatures) dwell.
109 He who, having left the main trunk, climbs the branches, how could he practice yoga ?
The garmont cannot go to the woaying / bo woven, poot man, without the cotton having beon carded.
110. When all the indecisions have been cut off, --for those who are abso. rbod in the natare of consiousness,
who stay in the meditation of the Immaculato, the Solf plays with the Supreme.
111. Today you will quickly conquer the yonng camel, having sot-him (to yourself) as your target;
having mounted [on] the camel all supreme muni bas froodom from coming and going in the samsara),
112. O camel, grazo, as you ploaso, the creeping horb of austorities to the plain of the Jina's virtuos,
as long as you do not abolish your unovod / unequal and dangerous Course in the transmigration of birthg.
