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ARIŞTANEMI’S SPORT, INITIATION, OMNISCIENCE 267 in dreams. Youth is fleeting like the shadow of a cloud; the bodies of corporeal creatures are like bubbles in water. Therefore, there is nothing at all of value in this worthless worldly existence, but value is the observance of (right-)belief, (right-) knowledge and (right-)conduct. Faith in the Principles is called right-belief, enlightenment on the Principles as they really are is known as (right-)knowledge; desistence from all censurable activity, the cause of emancipation, is (right-) conduct, fully for ascetics and partly for householders. A disciple of those who have full self-control, who has partial self-control (himself), who knows the true nature of worldly existence is a layman throughout life. He should avoid 246 wine, meat, new butter, honey, five kinds of figs, fruit that is known to have infinite bodies, eating at night, pulses mixed with raw milk, mouldy rice-pudding, curds more than two days old, and ill-smelling food.
Wine-drinking (307-322) Intelligence, even of a man adorned with cleverness, runs far away because of wine-drinking alone, like a woman because of unhappiness. Evil men, their minds made helpless by drinking Kādambari,247 consider their mothers as wives and their wives as mothers. One whose mind is disordered by wine does not know his own or another's; a wretch makes himself master and the master a servant. Dogs make water in the open mouth, with the idea that it is a crack, of the wine-drinker lying in the cross-roads like a corpse. Immersed in the liquid of wine-drinking, he sleeps nude at the cross-roads and easily betrays his secret purpose. 248 From the drinking of vāruņi249
246 305. The sermon now follows almost word for word the Yogaśāstra, 3.6 ff. I have followed the Yog.'s commentary, pp. 158 ff.
247 308. A kind of liquor distilled from flowers of the Cadamba.
248 311. I.e., he is easily forced to betray a secret, such as designs against the king.
249 312. Liquor from hogweed mixed with juice of date or palm and distilled. MW.
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