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The mightly chief of the Congregation of Sādhus, thereupon performed the auspicious ceremony of bestowing Diksā, on Jambū Kamāra and his family-members and on Prabhava and his five hundred comrades. Having given - Diksā to five hundred and twenty-seven persons, Sudharmā Swāmin uttered the undermentioned preaching -
तथाहि-एके जीवाः संयम सिंहतुल्या भूत्वा गृह्णन्ति श्रृगाला इव पालयन्ति; एके जीवाः शृगाला इव भूत्वा संयमं गृह्णन्ति श्रृगाला इव पालयन्ति; एके पुन: जीयाः श्रृगाला इव संयमं गृहन्ति सिंहा इव पालयन्ति; एके पुनः जीवाः सिंहा इव सुरवृत्त्या संयमं गृह्णन्ति सिंहा इव पालयन्ति । तेन भवद्भिश्चतुर्थमङ्गस्थ संयमो निरतिचारः पालनीयस्तथा यथा करतलग. ता मुक्तिरपि भवति । प्रमादो न करणीयः, प्रमादेन संमारे भ्रमणं भवति गृहीतसंयमानामपि ।
Tathāhi-Eké jivāh samyamam simhatulyā bhūtvā grihnanti srigālā iva pālayanti; eke jivāh srigālā iva bhūtvā samyamam grihộanti śrgālā iva pălayants; eke punaa jivāh śrigālā iva samyamam grihộanti, simhā va pālayantı, eke punah jivah simhā iva survittyā samyamam grihộanti, simhā iva pālayanti.
Téna bhavadbhiscaturthabhasthach samyamo niraticárh palaniyastathā yathā kara tala gata mukti-r-api bhavati.
Pramādo na karaniyah, pramādena samsāre bhramagam bhavati guzhītasamyamānāmapı.
Namely:-- Some persons becoming courgeous like lions take up the duties of an ascetic and observe there duties like jackals: 2 Some of them take up these duttes like jackals, and observe them like jackals; 3. Some take up these duties like jackals and observe them like lions, 4. While some persons take up the duties of an ascetic, bravely like lions and observe them bravely like lions.
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