Book Title: Sannyasa Dharma
Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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________________ SANNYASA DHARMA stituents! You cannot even impart satisfaction to your admirers. The nectar of the luscious lips is but the producer of an ever-increasing craving that is an affliction at all times. There is pain, when it is not available; it is deluding and blinding in the moment of enjoyment, and is followed by unimaginable calami. ties thereafter. Painful in the beginning, painful in the middle, and painful, indeed, in the end, is your company. What kind of pleasure can you afford which I have not had in the infinity of the series of the births and deaths which constitute my past career? All kinds of holy and unholy sex-associations have I formed and enjoyed in the past. But I have not had satiety yet. Alas! it is not the nature of these associations to lead to satisfaction! I was blinded by the lust of the eye, and the lust of the ear, and the lust of (the sense of) touch to think that the lovely female form could gratify the longings of the soul. I now know the truth. The longing of my soul is now for the real happiness that will know no abatement, not for the false flitting mockery which alone can be had from the resilient loveliness of flesh! I will therefore be firm and close my eyes and ears against its ravishments !' (9) Charya parisaha.-This signifies the pain arising from the rules of asceticism according to which the sadhu cannot stay for more than one night in a village and five nights in a town. about only on foot. He must never He may have to pass through lonely forests, infested with wild beasts, but there is never any thought about He is to move yield to fear. 97 xiii Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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