ĀTMĀNUŚĀSANA – PRECEPT ON THE SOUL by Ācārya GUṆABHADRA (ca. 818–900 A.D.) [196]
Gātha 195
First the body is formed. It has evil senses which seek their respective pleasures; these sense-pleasures cause you disrepute, toil, fear, and wicked after-life. This way, conventionally, the cause of all misfortune is the body only.
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Note 2:
See also Chakravarti Nayanar, A. (Prof.) (2009), Ācārya Kundakunda’s Paṅcāstikāya-Sāra, verses 128-130, p. 108-109. Cf.
‘Saṁvara [part 3554-3556]’ https://www.facebook.com/groups/692614454130155/permalink/3134181543306755.
Note 1:
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Ācārya Pūjyapāda’s Samādhitaṅtram:
Mistaking the inanimate body for the soul is the cause of worldly suffering. Therefore, leaving aside the notion that the body is the soul and withdrawing from indulgence in external sense objects, one should enter the soul within. Cf.
‘Saṁvara [part 4073]’ gātha 15 https://www.facebook.com/groups/692614454130155/permalink/3421127027945537.