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of religious practices which must necessarily be daily performed, devoted himself to the practice of self-control, directing his thoughts to the frailty of worldly objects, and practising the eighteen kinds of celibacy,-passed many years of ascetic life.
Marici Muni as a Parlvräjaka. One day in summer-when the hot rays of the dreadful Sun resembled the flame of fire,-when the hot winds blew as if from the burning furnace of a black-smith,-when the surface of the earth became hot like the hearts of affectionate females separated from their beloved ones,-when his whole body was full of dirt on account of his remaining without a bath for a long time,-and when he was perplexed and greatly afficted by the quantity of prespiration coming out from his whole body,-the mind of Marici Muni humiliated by excessive thirst following heat all over his body caused by the interse heat of the terrible Sun of summer, became at once alienated-powerless-from asceticism, at a critical moment during which his heart became defiled under the evil influence of ariftsitatea Căritrāvarantya Karma,a Karma obscuring inclinations for self-control,-although he did not possess any bad friend, although his body had become emaciated by the practice of two days' and three days' fasting while residing among a group of ascetics under his preceptor, and although he was always revising the study of the Eleven Angas and their meanings.
When the extremely powerful warrior Ate Moha, Infatuation-The fourth deluding karma out of the eight chief Karmas,-at whose appearance, a soul is subject to attachment, hatred, passion, sexual enjoyment, and falsehood,-is able to defile the minds of such mighty pious souls, what else cannot be accomplished by the eight Karmas which are capable of making things that are quite unaccomplishable by human intelligence, as objects easily accomplished ?
Besides, so long as a Soul is not enslaved under the fetters of this great monster Moha, till then, the sense of remaining
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