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The Offering of Distics (Dohapahuda)
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O dear, the wolves have scattered, the flocks - the people are wandering! 188. Having left the two paths, he goes in Between, (without a goals) miserable.
If be achieves a goal, he obtains the fruit of neither of these two (paths). 189. O yogi, uneven/unequal and dangerous is the course of activities; the mind docs not go to the restraint,
to the bliss of the (pleasures of the senses - his sacred ford - He goes again and again. 190. (The mind,) as long as it is bound, wanders through/to the three worlds (and) does not make a step (to be) free.
(but) sce, o yogi, (unbound) the camel door not take a false step. 191. Truth (or) reality is not seen-wandoring through the samsará,
encircled by the battalions (of the senses), the soul wanders, banished in strange jungles. 192, To him who makes the unhabited places bis habitation, and in fadits the empty one,
an offering is to be made, o yogi, to him who has neither slo por merit. 193. He who eliminates the karmans made in the past (and) dipes Hot admit new ones,
who, day after day, meditates the god Jina, he becomes the supremo Self. 194. He who courts the (pleasures of the) 800&es, (and) moreover commita numerous sins,
he goes as a host to hell-be takes his karmans as companlons, 195. (In hell,) poople are consumed by torments
by means of holes filled with the nauseous amell of excrements and urine,
like a dog through laceration of his sklo, 196. Even for the onlookers, o foolish man, o poor man, there w' bo bliss through love-maklog;
o dear, it is only a small hole for urino, but no one will forgo It! 197. Meditate the noblo Jina, o soul, after you havo crushed the caldasures of the) senses and pa8810018
you will nowhere sce misery, o poor man, after you have become a sojourn/it is the sojourn -with no aglog, no death 198. Renounce the (pleasures of the) sensog and Passioni, o poor mati, and fix the mind on the Self,
