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ÂKÂRÂNGA SÛTRA.
4
THIRD LECTURE,
CALLED
HOT AND COLD.
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
FIRST LESSON.
The unwise sleep, the sages always wake. Know, that in this world the (cause of) misery1 brings forth evil consequences! Knowing the course of the world, one should cease from violent acts. He who correctly possesses these (sensual perceptions), viz. sounds, and colours, and smells, and tastes, and touches (1), who self-possessed, wise, just, chaste, with right comprehension understands the world, he is to be called a sage, one who knows the law, and righteous. He knows the connection of the whirl (of births) and the current (of sensation with love and hate). Not minding heat and cold, equanimous against pleasure and pain, the Nirgrantha does not feel the austerity of penance. Waking and free from hostility, a wise man, thou liberatest (thyself and others) from the miseries. (2)
But a man always benighted, subject to old age and death, does not know the law. Seeing living beings suffering, earnestly enter a religious life. Considering this, O prudent one, look!
1 I. e. ignorance and delusion.
2
Knowing the misery that results from action, The deluded and careless one returns to life;
Regarding the evil-doer.
8 And renounces.
Again a half sloka, unnoticed as such by the commentators.
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