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Hiralal Jain
Whoever inhabits the deserted and deserts the inhabited, to that ascetic I submit myself; he has neither vice nor virtue.
[This verse has the same significance as the following from the भगवद्गीता -
या निशा सर्वभूतानां तस्यां जागर्ति संयमी । यस्यां जाग्रति भूतानि सा निशा पश्यतो मुनेः ॥ ]
2 False ascetie.
सप्पि मुक्की कंचुलिय जं विस्रु तं ण मुएइ । भोयहं भाउ ण परिहरइ लिंगग्गहणु करेइ ॥ १५ ॥
The serpent has abandoned the slough but not the poison. Such is the one who takes up the guise of an ascetic but does not give up hankering after pleasures.
जो मुणि छंडिवि विसयसुह पुणु अहिलासु करेइ ।
लुंचणु सोसणु सो सहइ पुणु संसारु भमेइ ॥ १६ ॥
The sage who, having once renounced the pleasures of sensual objects, again entertains a desire for them, merely suffers plucking the hair and drying up the body: he revolves still in the cycle of life.
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ताम कुतित्थ परिभमई धुत्तिम ताम करंति ।
गुरुहुं पसाएं जाम ण वि देहहं देउ मुणंति ॥ ८० ॥
They wander about the unholy places and practise deception so long as they do not, through the favour of the teacher, realise God in their own body.
पंडियपंडिय पंडिया कणु छंडिवि तुस कंडिया ।
अथे गंथे तुट्टो सि परमत्थु ण जाणहि मूढो सि ॥ ८५३ ॥
Oh, the most learned of the learned! You have neglected the gain and been beating the chaff: you are satisfied with the words and their meaning but know nothing of the supreme truth; so you are foolish.
.: 46:1
[ Shree Atmaramji
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