ĀTMĀNUŚĀSANA – PRECEPT ON THE SOUL by Ācārya GUṆABHADRA (ca. 818–900 A.D.) [52]
Gātha 50
You long for, without a sense of revulsion and as if you had never enjoyed these earlier, the sense-pleasures (like the female body) that the sensual men have chucked up as they got rid of delusion. O soul! Can you ever get real happiness until you conquer the craving for evil sense-pleasures that confront you in form of brave enemy-army comprising host of sins and whose flag flies high?
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Note 1:
Ācārya Pūjyapāda’s Iṣṭopadeśa, verse 30, has similar contention:
‘Out of delusion, I have enjoyed and then discarded, many times over, all existing material objects. I have no wish to enjoy those leftovers again.’
Cf. ‘Saṁvara [part 4036]’ https://www.facebook.com/groups/692614454130155/permalink/3360896683968572.