ĀTMĀNUŚĀSANA – PRECEPT ON THE SOUL by Ācārya GUṆABHADRA (ca. 818–900 A.D.) [40]
Gātha 38
What taste is there in the bitter poison of sense-pleasures in whose search you have distressed yourself and defiled the nectar of your self-esteem? Alas! It is clear that, though knowledgeable but as if suffering from the bilious-fever, your senses, the messengers of the mind chasing sense-pleasures, have perverted your taste.
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