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2. These sensual enjoyments give pleasure, so long as there exists bewilderment at heart. But, in the competent hearts of wise persons there is no room, for sensual enjoyments, for a desire for pleasure, and none for property.
At that time. a faget Vidyādhara -an aerial genius.-flying in the air, on seeing the miserable man hanging in the well, out of compassion for him, went to hun and said “O worthy man ! You take hold of my hand and resting on it, try to come out of the well.” The miserable man said, “You wait for some time, and let this drop of honey fali into my mouth." The Vidyadhara told him repeatedly for a long time, but the miserable man did not leave off he transient pleasure of the taste of a drop of honey and he did not come out of the well. The vidyadhara then went away to his celestial abode, and the man suffered great agonies there.
Jambū Kumāra addressing Prabhava, said " In the same manner, O Prabhava | I am deeply engrossed in this unprofitable world for the sake of transient pleasure.
The 3974 Upanaya, Application of the story, is this:
The miserable man is the man of the world, the dreadful forest is the worldly existence, the elephant is death; the well is the world of mortals; the boa-snake is heli; the four ordinary snakes are the four footas Kasayas-Passions-viz #ita Krodha, Anger, Ata Māna Puide, RIOT Mãyā, Deceit, and GĦ Lobha, Greed; the Banyana tree is the allotted term of life; the two rats are the bright and the dark fortnights of the months; the honey-bees are the innumerable maladies of the body; the drop of honey is the taste of the sensual enjoyments; the Vidyādhara is the worthy Guru. He who renounces the unprofitable world, attains #fito Mukti, the State of Final Beautitude Others, suffer the pangs of terrible miseries in hell like the miserable man of the story.
Prabhava then said “O Jambu Kumāral having renounced your affectionate mother and father, your wives, and your
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