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ners he has !” Arahadatta, in order to test his intention said, “O dear one, the constraint which is the receptacle of all happiness, should be practised by one who has abandoned the householder's life with a desireless mind, having chastised the senses which are engrossed in their respective objects of pleasures and having extinguished the fire of sinful taints. And it is extremely painful to the soul who is influenced by the endless impressions of the objects of pleasures. Even after giving up the world, some do not become successful to observe it on account of the taint of actions done before; they get perplexed; they take to false resorts. These people have given up constraint. O longlived one, they are neither the householders nor the friars and they destroy their manhood, making it useless for both the worlds. [58] When it is so fixed, it is not proper to renounce the housholder's life without assessing oneself and without thinking what is worthy to be abandoned and accepted.” Dharana said, “It is just such as you order. But,
My notion is that the householder's life is worthy to be abandoned; and the ascetic
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