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implication is that you should cultivate detachment in such circumstances. In this way the attachment and aversion will find an easy endurance. 2.163 muni monam samadaya, dhune kamma-sariragam. Having undertaken the monastic discipline, the monk should shake up his karma-body. Bhagyam Sutra 1 6 3 Amonk21 following his monkhood, should shake off his karma-body. 'Monk' means a wise person. Monkhood' means knowledge or self-restraint. The Sūtra 4.32 reads the monk should shake off his body.' The Curnias explained 'body' primarily as karma-body?? and secondarily as the gross
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In the Sutrakrtanga, 24 there is explicit mention of the gross body in this connection. The Curni has clearly shown the relationship between the gross and the karma-body.25 In the concept of physical penance, the shaking off of the impurities of the gross body is the primary purpose while the shaking off of karma-body is only incidental. In the context of meditation, however the direct reference is to the karma-body, the gross body being only the secondary position.26 In the present description, both the ways of shaking off of the karma-body are mentioned. In the three Sutras 160-162, meditation as the means is quite evident. In the Sutra 164, the restriction of food as the means is clearly mentioned. What is to be understood in this connection is that unless the gross body is Shaken off, the karmna body cannot be. Therefore, here, the shaking off of both the gross body as well as the mind in the gross body is evidently implied.?? 2.164 pamtam lūham sevamti virá samattadamsiņo. The heroes with the vision of equality consume insipid and dry food. Bhasyam Sūtra 164 Restraining consumption of food is a means to shaking off the karma-body. Everybody is not capable of such restraint. Only the heroic one, on account of their sufficient psychic power of stamina can do so. A person without the
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