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attitude of equality to the agreeable and disagreeable is also unable to do so. The equally disposed people alone can succeed in such restraint and enjoy the stale sapless 28 food. In the Cürni,29 the attitude of equality has been substituted by 'right vision'. The persons with wrong vision not capable of restraining their food habit.
2.165 esa oghamtare muņi, tiņņe mutte virate, viyāhite tti bemi.
The monk who has crossed the stream of birth and death is designated 'the crosser', 'the liberated', 'the detached'- thus do I
say.
Bhasyam Sutra 165
The monk described in these Sutras (160-164) is said to have crossed the stream of life, gone to the other shore, liberated, and free from attachment. The crosser of the stream is so called because he has crossed the stream of the habits and instincts produced by karma or the cycle of worldly life.
2.166 duvvasu muņi aṇāṇāe.
The monk who does not obey the commandment is poor in spirituality. Bhasyam Sutra 166
The monk who does not abide by the commandment of the Jina is a poorly disciplined person. The commandment of the Jina consists in not to succumbing to ennui and relish, endurance of pleasing and unpleasing sound and touch, inhibition of interest in material things, shaking off of the karm-body, consumption of insipid and dry food. The commandment of the Jina is truly the treasure. The monk who transgresses the commandment is unlucky. He is poor in the practice of the discipline. The internal reason for not following the commandment is the rise of the past karma. The external cause is environment.
2.167 tucchae gilai vattae.
The monk who is not loyal to the discipline fights shy of expounding the truth.
Bhasyam Sutra 167
not
A person without wealth and fortune is materially empty. The j person following the commandment is spiritually empty. This is why he fights shy
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