Uttarajjhayana 211.22.p1.1_3

211.22.p1.1_3

U/32 pamāyaṭhāṇaṃ dvātriṃśam adhyayanam /
accantakālassa samūlagassa | savvassa dukkhassa u jo pamokkho /
taṃ bhāsao me paḍipuṇṇacittā | suṇeha egantahiyaṃ hiyatthaṃ ||1||

With attentive mind hear me explain for your benefit the deliverance from the beginningless time, together with its causes, and from all misery: a truly wholesome subject. (1)
By the teaching of true knowledge, by the avoidance of ignorance and delusion, and by the destruction of love and hatred, one arrives at final deliverance which is nothing but bliss. (2)
This is the road to it: to serve the Gurus and the old (teachers), to avoid throughout foolish people, to apply oneself earnestly to study, and to ponder zealously on the meaning of the Sûtras. (3)
A Sramana engaged in austerities, who longs for righteousness, should eat the proper quantity of allowed food, should select a companion of right understanding, and should live in a place suited to seclusion. (4)
If he does not meet with a clever companion who surpasses or equals him in virtue, he should live by himself, abstaining from sins and not devoted to pleasures. (5)
As the crane is produced from an egg, and the egg is produced from a crane, so they call desire the origin of delusion, and delusion the origin of desire. (6)
Love and hatred are caused by Karman, and they say that Karman has its origin in delusion; Karman is the root of birth and death, and birth and death they call misery. (7)
Misery ceases on the absence of delusion, delusion ceases on the absence of desire, desire ceases on the absence of greed, greed ceases on the absence of property. (8)