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sincerely wish that you got me safely through the mean of worlåly existence which is unfathomable with the mass of water in the form of endless, terrible, and immeasurable Mithyātva (wrong belief), which is non-navigable on account of great whirlwinds in the form of Moha (infatuation), which is ull of series of waves in the form of constantly occurring births and deaths, which is filled with the mire of passions; which is overwhelmed with multitudes of crccodlies in the form of diseases befalling in various ways; which is impenetrable on account or the darkness of Ignorance needing careful consideration; which is terrible like a battle-fight to timid persons as it is naturally inaccessible, fearful, Interwoven with evil consequences, ungrateful, and a source of grief, exertion, and other troubles, and a source of commotion; and which is capable of causing intense horripilation by meditating calmly from various stand points, by becoming my pilot of a chip-in the form of faultless asce: icism-whose holes are covered by tightly fitting precepts of Jnana (knowledge) and Darsana (perception) which is very firmly encrusted with an sadamantine plaster ing of stoppage of Karmas-which is bound for the Path of Renunciation by the force of the wind of penance which is unshaken by the waves of other ph!l::opbical doctrines, and which is filled with thousands of gems in the form of various kinds of virtuous conduct" Guru Mahārāja said, O good King! do not delay now." King Nandana then, entrusted the burden of government of his kingdom to his son, and having renounced royal wealth, as if it were a malady, he came out from the state of a house-holder like a bird from a cage, and became a Jalna ascetic, endowed with five varietles of samiti carefulness in making inovements), restralued with three kinds of guptis (guardedness with regard to activities of mind, speech and body) who was albe to conquer all the parusahas (troubles created by other agencies), who was powerful in subduing all the passions and who was capable of pacifying all sinful acts in course of time, Nandala Muni studied Eleven Angas, and although his body was becoming lean by practising, without the least disturbance severe austerities, of one month's duration each, difficult to be
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