________________
67. One should withdraw from one side and move to the other. One should withdraw from self-unrestraint and move to self-restraint.
68. Just as the horses have been curbed by reins, so also by means of knowledge and meditation and also through the strength of austerity, the passions and sensual pleasures are strongly restrained.
69. That wound, debt, fire and passion (though) they may be existing even in a small quantity should not be ignored by one, since despite their being negligible (in quantity), each one of them is undoubtedly very much.
70. Anger dissolves affection; pride is subversive of modesty; hypocrisy throws out friends and greed is destructive of everything.
71. Man should subvert anger by peaceful disposition, subdue pride by modesty, overcome hypocrisy by simplicity and greed by. contentment.
72. Just as the tortoise draws, its limbs in its body, so also the wise man does away with the vices by means of spirituality.
73. The person who commits wrong action consciously or unconsciously should immediately restrain himself (and then) he should not commit it the second time.
74. He who renounces inclination to a thing causing attachment renounces the thing causing attachment. He for whom there does not exist anything causing attachment,
Cayanikā ]
Jain Education International
For Personal & Private Use Only
[83
I
www.jainelibrary.org
