ĀTMĀNUŚĀSANA – PRECEPT ON THE SOUL by Ācārya GUṆABHADRA (ca. 818–900 A.D.) [70]

    Alexander Zeugin

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    Gātha 69

     

    Why your insistence on protecting the body that cannot be defended even after employing tens of millions of measures, by self or by others, and whose annihilation is certain? In other words, by no means can the body be protected from destruction; your insistence on protecting it is futile.

     

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