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of sleep, he does not commit any undesirable act. This is the secret of his complete self-awareness at all times. In poetical literature also, we find the eulogy of constant wakefulness:
"If I had in thought, word or deed, while awake or sleeping, any inclination to being the spouse of any other person other than Rāghava, then, O fire! burn this body of mine, because you alone indeed are the witness to the good or bad will of people.”'! 3.2 loyamsi jāņa ahiyāya dukkham.
You should know ignorance to be cause of misfortune. Bhāsyam Sūtra 2
Ignorance and delusion i.e. the perversity of a person who is asleep is ever on increase. Such delusion is suffering, being the cause of misery or suffering in itself. You should know that the latter is conducive to the baneful. In this very life of a person engaged in violence and possessiveness the baneful consequences like punishment, imprisonment etc. are visible. 3.3 samayam logassa Jānittä, ettha satthovarae.
Knowing the equality of all beings of the world, one should desist
from the weapon of violence. Bhagyam Sutra 3
Here 'world' means 'inmates of the world'. Perceiving the equality of the inmates of the world, a monk, desists from weapons of injury, Whatever is instrumental to torture to creature is called a weapon of injury. A person of non-violent and non-possessive inclination naturally abstains from all sorts of injurious weapons. Here, in the context of non-violence, the word 'equality' stands for comparison with self in respect of suffering. In the context of non-possessiveness, it means 'balanced attitude in gain and loss, and the like.' 3.4 jassime saddā ya rüvā ya gamdhā ya rasā ya phāsā ya
abhisamannāgayā bhavamti, se āyavam nāņavam veyavam dhammavam bambhavam. One who havs completely known the sensuous objects such as, sounds, colours, smells, tastes and touches - realizes the self, the knowledge, the scriptures, the doctrine and the discipline.
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