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12. The impure body does not become pure, like sundaghata (an earthen-pot full of wine) even if it be rubbed with oils, anointed with fragrant substances, and even if it be washed with millions of earthen-pots (filled with water)?
13 By those, who, following precedents, say that purity is done by mud, water, fire, wind, cloth, bathing, etc, tusa-khanda nam (pounding of husks=fruitless endeavour) is done.
14. Therefore, tapah (austerity) which results in Mokşa (Final Emancipation) should be done by this body.
A wise man should draw out the most Excellent (Liberation) from this worthless body, like precious gems acquired from the salt-sea.
Also,
“The passing away of Life, resembles an increase and decrease indicated daily by the Rise and Setting-in of the Sun. Persons rendered heavy by the burden of multifarious underta kings do not really realise how time passes away They do not really realise how time passes away. They do not become terrified on experiencing the miseries of birth, old age, misfortunes, and death. Ah! the whole world has become intoxicated by the poison of Moha infatuation) and pramâda ( carelessness).
The soul enveloped on all sides; by the pramāda acts of carelessness ) of five kinds, the non-controlling and non-curbing of the passions and the senses--associated with it from time immemorial, does not differentiate between what is appropriate and what is not. Individuals coming from different conditions of existence during previous lives and born in the family. are considered as one's own through ignorance, He invariably thinks that they are beneficial to him, and he employs all the addhāra pâpasthānakas (eighteen varieties of sinful acts ) for their nourishment
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