ĀTMĀNUŚĀSANA – PRECEPT ON THE SOUL by Ācārya GUṆABHADRA (ca. 818–900 A.D.) [56]
Gātha 54
O wandering soul! You have taken birth; your body is full of imperfections and home to impurities like blood, bones, faeces and urine; you have passions like anger; you are subject to mental- and physical-suffering; your conduct is lowly; you deceive yourself; you are trapped in the wide-open mouth of death; you are ready to be swallowed by old-age. O ignorant soul! Then why, like a lunatic and enemy of own good, you desire these harmful sense-pleasures? It is beyond comprehension.
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