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You should observe the ATA BT Samyama-dharma,-the duties of an ascetic,-bravely, without any defect what-so-ever in accordance with the fourth variety, in such a way, that af Mukti,-Emancipation-soon becomes an object to be grasped by the palms of the hand.
You should not be negligent because negligence causes wandering in the Samsāra, even in the case of persons who have already taken up TREÅ Samyama Dharma,-the duties of an ascetic. Because,
चउद्दसपुच्ची आहारगा वि मणनाणी वीयरागा य ।
होति पमायपरवसा तयणंतरमेव चउगइआ ॥१॥ 1. Cauddasa-puvvī āhāragāvi maộanāņi vīyarāgā ya;
Hontı pamāyaparavasā tayaṇantaraméva caugaiā 1. 1. Even ascetics well-versed in the fourteen Purvas, ascetics with Āhāraka Labdhi, ascetics with #aquata Manan-paryava Jñāna-Mental Knowledge, and ascetics who are exempt from passions, become wanderers afterwards in the four Gatis of this Samsāra on account of their becoming over-powered by negligence.
Jambū Muni, thence-forward, particularly practised severe austerities. It is for this very reason, that the great sage is daily praised in the following words, by many ascetics:
नवणवई कंचणकोडीउ, जेणुझिया अट्ठयबालियाओ।
सो जम्बूस्वामी पढमो मुणीणं, अपच्छिमो नंदउ केवलीणं ॥१॥ 1. Navaṇavai kancaņa kodiu jenujjhiyā attha ya bāliyão ;
So Jambū-swāmī, padhamo muniņam, apacchimo nandau Kévaliņam. I.
1. Obeisance to Jambū Swāının, the most excellent ascetic and the last Kévalin who abandoned the prosperity of a
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