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pursues desires, is destroyed in pursuing) after the desires ! But casting away desires, a being gets rid of all taints whatever. This body, void of enlightenment®, seems (to be) a hell for (all) beings. Those who are avaricious run about“, going headlong to a ditch. A man, O Kshatriya! who contemns everything else learns nothing. To him (the body is) like a tiger made of straw. And this internal self (joined to) delusion and fear' in consequence of wrath and avarice, within your body, that verily is death Understanding death to be thus produced, and adhering to knowledge, one is not afraid of death in this (world). In his province death is destroyed, as a mortal (is destroyed) on arriving in the province of death.
Dhritarashtra said : The good, eternal, and most holy worlds ", which 'On this Nilakantha quotes these lines, 'The antelope, elephant, butterfly, bee, and fish these five are destroyed by the five,' i.e. the five objects of sense, sound, &c. Sec Sånti Parvan (Moksha Dharma), chap. 174, st. 45.
• I.e. misery, Nilakantha; merit or sin, Sankare.
'l.e. void of discrimination between the real and unreal, Nilakantha; result of ignorance, Sankara A hell, as being full of filh,' says Sankara, “such as phlegm, blood, excretions. Cf. Maitri, p. 48.
• As blind men groping about fall into a ditch, 80 do these, Sankar.
. l.c. other than the sensuous objects be loves; learns nothing' about the supremc Self which he disregards.
• Useless for any good purpose. 'Cl. Taittirfya-upanishad, p. 101.
• As being ruinous to oneself. Sankara compares Gitá, p. 68. Cl. ako Tajuirlya-upanishad, p. 103, and see Brihadiranyaka, p. 61.
• I.e. beedlessness and its developments as stated. no Sankan cites on this Taittirlya-upanishad, p. 78. " Such as Saryaloka, &c.
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