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Svayambhudeva on the anuprekṣās (Paümacariu 54.5-16)
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world offers protection. Even if one is guarded by fearsome servants with swords and clubs in their hand, by elephants, horses or chariots, by Kamalāsana, Rudra or Janardana,'' by Yama, Varuna, Kubera or Purandara, by Gaņas, Yakṣas, Mahoragas or Kinnaras,18 or if one resides at the bottom of Pātāla', in a mountain cave, in a fire or in the water of the ocean, in a battle in a forest, in grass, in heaven, in a celestial palace, on the road to hell, Ratnaprabha20, etc., inside a basket, or in skeleton of a house, in half a moment one is dragged away from there! In that time of helplessness, there is no other support for the being. Only the doctrine characterized by non-violence offers protection.21
rāvaṇa gaya-ghada bhada-nivahu 'ettiu chaḍděvi jäsi tuhu
aho rāvana ṇava-kuvalaya-dalakkha jagě jīvaho natthi sahau ko vi "iu gharu iu pariyaņu iu kalattu" ekkeņa kaṇevvau vihura-kālĕ ekkeņa vasevvaü tahî nigoě ekkeņa bhamevvaü bhava-samuddě ekkaho je dukkhu ekkaho je sukkhu ekkaho jě pāv ekkaho jě dhammu
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Rāvana, a herd of elephants, a troop of soldiers, a house, a following, a friend, kingship, you leave it behind. Only happiness or misfortune is your companion. Oh, Rāvaṇa, with eyes like the leaves of a fresh blue lotus, have you not heard the anuprekṣā on being alone? A being has no ally in this world. The Power of bewilderment makes one attached to pleasure. [You think:] "This is [my] house, this [my] following and this [my] wife." But you do not understand that one is destitute of it all. In adverse times, one has to weep alone. In the crackling of fire, one has to remain alone. In that Nigoḍa hell,22 one has to live alone. In separation from one's loved-ones, one has to cry alone. One has to roam the ocean of existence alone, full of dangerous currents of karman and aquatic animals of delusion. Misfortune [happens] to someone alone, as does happiness, [karmic] bondage and liberation, the bad and the good, death and birth. In such adversity [one's] hundreds of kinsmen will not be close. Only two [things] always will: the good and bad deeds of a
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