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ich will last till the end of your seven generations. Use this wealth in worldly pleasure in accordance with your own wish, and giving gifts to deserving persons, pass your days happily."
Jamāli said "Mother! A largs mass of wealth is subject to danger from fire, robbers, and partners. Besides, it is uncertain, un-eternal and a source of many evil deeds. Why should there be so much obstructive argument in this
When Jamali did not concede in any way, although he was persuaded with agreeable words of various kinds, his parents again told him, with dreadful words against samyama (asceetic life):--O son! Nirgrantha pravacana (nirgrantha-free from all bondage i-e Jaina sadhus pravacana (dîksă-initiation in accordance with Jaina Siddhantas) is fraught with great hardships. It is like chewing beads of iron-like going in a direction contrary to the current of water in the great river named Ganga (Ganges)-like crossing a great ocean by means of one's arms only-and it is a vow as dangerous as walking bare-footed on a sharp pointed edge of a sword. Besides O child! after this dîkṣā, food-material prepared specially for Sadhus, or food-material prepared for the use of house-holder made more delicious when it is to be given to a Sadhu or food material prepared in accordance with a combination of both these methods, or foodmaterial bought for the Sadhu, is not acceptable to a Sâdhu. Also, a Sadhu cannot take food-material from food prepared for famine-stricken persons-from food meant for sick personsfrom food prepared on a dur-dina ( rainy day) accompanied by an abundance of multitudes of clouds-from food belonging to a sayyatara ( one giving a place of residence to a sadhu) or from food of bulbs, roots, unripe fruits, green seeds, or green uncooked vegetables, green uncooked leaves. O son! you have been brought up and nourished in great happiness, and so, you will be unable to endure the discomfort of cold or heat, hunger, thirst, wind, slander, and other disturbances out of twentytwo parisahas (hardships) of ascetic life. Therefore, O son!
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