Uttarajjhayana 128.1.16_11

128.1.16_11

dhaṇaṃ pabhūyaṃ saha itthiyāhiṃ | sayaṇā tahā kāmaguṇā pagāmā /
tavaṃ kae tappai jassa logo | taṃ savvasāhīṇam iheva tubbhaṃ ||16||

'Great wealth and women, a family and exquisite pleasures: for such things people practise austerities. All this you may have for your asking.' (16)
"What avail riches for the practice of religion, what a family, what pleasures? We shall become Sramanas, possessed of many virtues, and wander about collecting alms." (17)
'As fire is produced in the Arani-wood, as butter in milk, and oil in sesamum seed, so, my sons, is the soul produced in the body; (all these things) did not exist before, they came into existence, and then they perish; but they are not permanent.' (18)
"(The soul) cannot be apprehended by the senses, because it possesses no corporeal form, and since it possesses no corporeal form it is eternal. The fetter of the soul has been ascertained to be caused by its bad qualities, and this fetter is called the cause of worldly existence. (19)
"Thus being ignorant of the Law, we formerly did sinful actions, and through our wrong-mindedness we were kept back and retained (from entering the order). We shall not again act in the same way. (20)
"As mankind is harassed (by the one), and taken hold of (by the other), and as the unfailing ones go by, we take no delight in the life of a householder." (21)
'Who harasses the world? who takes hold of it?
whom do you call unfailing? My sons, I am anxious to learn this.' (22)
"Mankind is harassed by Death; it is taken hold of by Old Age; the days are called unfailing: know this, Father! (23)