ĀTMĀNUŚĀSANA – PRECEPT ON THE SOUL by Ācārya GUṆABHADRA (ca. 818–900 A.D.) [229]
Gātha 228
O worthy soul! When you have become delusion-free in respect of attractive external objects – inanimate and animate (the wife, the son, etc.) – why do you then unnecessarily delude yourself in respect of your instruments of restraint, the feather-whisk (picchī) and the water-pot (kamaṇdalu)? Does any wise man, who takes no food for fear of disease, ever provoke indigestion by intake of (too much) medicine?
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