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LECTURE VI.
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himself search for the truth, and be kind towards all creatures. (2)
Mother, father, daughter-in-law, brother, wife, and sons will not be able to help me, when I suffer for my own deeds 1.: (3)
This truth should be taken to heart? by a man of pure faith; he should therefore) cut off greed and love, and not hanker after his former connections. (4)
Cows and horses, jewels and earrings, cattle, slaves and servants: all these (possessions) you must give up in order to obtain the power of changing your form at will. (5) 3
Everything that happens to somebody, affects him personally; therefore, knowing the creatures' love of their own self, do not deprive them of their life, but cease from endangering and combating them. (6)
Seeing that to accept (presents) leads to hell, one should not accept even a blade of grass; only to preserve one's life 4 one should eat the food that is put in one's own alms-bowl. (7)
Here some are of opinion that they will be delivered from all misery by merely attending the teachers, without abstaining from sins. (8)
1 This verse recurs in Sûtrakritânga I, 9, 5.
? Sapê hâê pâsê=svapreksha yâ pa syêt, he should look at it with his mind or reflectively. However sa pêhâê is usually the absolute participle samprêkshya. The meaning is the same in both cases.
Some MSS. insert here the following verse: Movables and immovables, corn, and furniture can not deliver a man from pain, who is suffering for his deeds.'
* This is according to the commentators the meaning of the word dôgunkhî = gugupsin.
5 Âyariyam vidittânam. The commentator makes this out
