Uttarajjhayana 211.22.p1.17_3

211.22.p1.17_3

mokkhābhikaṃkhissa u māṇavassa | saṃsārabhīrussa ṭhiyassa dhamme /
neyārisaṃ duttaram atthi loe | jahitthio bālamaṇoharāo ||17||

To a man who longs for liberation, who is afraid of the Samsâra, and lives according to the Law, nothing in the world offers so many difficulties as women who delight the mind of the ignorant. (17)
To those who have overcome the attachment (to women), all others will offer no difficulties; even as to those who have crossed the great ocean, no river, though big like the Ganges, (will offer any difficulty). (18)
From desire of pleasure arises the misery of the whole world, the gods included; whatever misery of body and mind there is, the dispassionate will put an end to it. (19)
As the fruit of the Kimpâka is beautiful in taste and colour, when eaten; but destroys the life when digested, (being) poison; similar in their effect are pleasures. (20)
A Sramana, engaged in austerities, who longs for righteousness, should not fix his thoughts on the pleasant objects of the senses, nor turn his mind from them, if they be unpleasant. (21)
'Colour' attracts the eye; it is the pleasant cause of Love, but the unpleasant cause of Hatred; he who is indifferent to them (viz. colours), is called dispassionate. (22)
The eye perceives 'colour,' and 'colour' attracts the eye; the cause of Love is pleasant, and the cause of Hatred is unpleasant. (23)
He who is passionately fond of 'colours,' will come to untimely ruin; just as an impassioned moth which is attracted by the light rushes into death. (24)