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UTTARADHYAYANA SUTRA (UTTARAJJHAYAŅA SŪYA)
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Wealth will never protect a careless man in this world. Like a wise man trust nobody but be always on the alert.
One cannot quickly arrive at discernment; therefore one should exert one's self, abstain from pleasures, understand the world, guard one's self, and be impartial like a sage. External things weaken the intellect and allure many; thereforo keep them out of mind. Remove pride, delusion, greed and deceit. Heretics who are impure and proud are always subject to love and hatred and they are wholly under the influence of their passions. Despising them as unholy men, one should desire virtues till the end of one's life.1
There are two ways of life ending with death: 2 (i) death with one's will, and (ii) death against one's will. Death against one's will is the death of an ignorant man and it happens to him several times. Death with one's will is the death of a wise man and it happens once as in the case of a Keralin.3 A fool being attached to pleasures does cruel actions. One who is attached to pleasures and amusements will be caught in the trap of deceit. The pleasures of this lite are in your hand but the future pleasures are uncertai. It is doubted whether there is any next world. An ignorant man kills, lies, deceives, drinks wine and cats meat, thinking that this is the right thing to do. A man desirous of wealth and women accumulates sins by his act and thought. Fools who do cruel deeds will suffer violently. When death l'eally comes, the fool trembles in fear. He dies the death against one's will. Some householders are superior to some monks in self-control. But the saints are superior to all householders in self-control. A faithful man should practise the rules of conduct for householders. He should never neglect the fast. Those who are trained in self-control and penance, monks or houscholders, who have obtained liberation by absence of passions, go to the highest regions. The virtuous and the learned do not tremble in the hour of death. A wise man will become calm through patience with an indisturbed mind at the time of death. When the right time for death has come, a faithful monk should in the presence of his teacher suppress all emotions of fear or joy and wait for his end. When the time for quitting the body has come, a sage clies the death with one's will. 4
i Uttaradhyayana, IV, 10-13.
? Ibid., 1, 1-32. 3 Ho possesses kevalajñunu or omniscience. He is all seeing and allknowing. He has obtained the fifth degree of knowledge, C. Apuriseau in Buddhism. Vide Jaina Sūtras, 1, pp. 260-264. It is tho highest und unlimited knowledgo.
4 Cf. Acūrūnga Sūtra, I, 7, 8.
