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ĀTMĀNUŚĀSANA – PRECEPT ON THE SOUL by Ācārya GUṆABHADRA (ca. 818–900 A.D.) [191]

    Alexander Zeugin
    By Alexander Zeugin

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    Gātha 190

     

    O worthy soul! In this world, you study the Scripture incessantly, without desire for renown and without pretense. Also, dry up your body through well-known austerities (tapa) like endurance of bodily discomfiture so as to vanquish intractable enemies of passions (kaṣāya) and sense-pleasures (viṣaya). It is so because learned ascetics consider the suppression of attachment and aversion the only fruit of austerities and the study of the Scripture.

     

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