ĀTMĀNUŚĀSANA – PRECEPT ON THE SOUL by Ācārya GUṆABHADRA (ca. 818–900 A.D.) [89]
Gātha 88
This body has been nourished unremittingly by the objects-of-enjoyment and, in the middle of youth, adored by the amorously playful and charming eye-lotuses of beautiful women. If, on acquisition of the discriminating knowledge (as you subject your body to austerities), the doe (she-deer) mistakes your body for a land-lotus in a burnt down forest, you are truly praiseworthy
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