ĀTMĀNUŚĀSANA – PRECEPT ON THE SOUL by Ācārya GUṆABHADRA (ca. 818

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Gātha 242

Infatuation for the body – ‘the body is mine and I am its’ [note 1] – is like the calamity (īti) that inflicts the harvest. So long as such infatuation for the body persists in the soul, what hope is there for its liberation (mokṣa), the fruit of austerities (tapa)?

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Note 1:
Cf. also Ācārya ŚRĪMAT PŪJYAPĀDA’s, SAMĀDHITAṄTRAM, gātha 56

‘Saṁvara [part 4114]’inclusively notes 1a-c https://www.facebook.com/groups/692614454130155/permalink/3426765837381656.

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ĀTMĀNUŚĀSANA – PRECEPT ON THE SOUL by Ācārya GUṆABHADRA (ca. 818–900 A.D.) [243]

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