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Gātha 193
O soul! For very long, by adopting conduct that...
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Gātha 192
Even an ignorant man, himself fond of harmful...
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Gātha 191
O worthy soul! Why do you long for sense-pleasures as...
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Gātha 190
O worthy soul! In this world, you study the Scripture...
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Gātha 189
If you expect the fruit of your study of the entire...
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Gātha 188
In this world, the birth is the interval between the...
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Gātha 187
The man who is happy in this world attains happiness...
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Gātha 186
The loss of something desirable causes anguish and,...
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Gātha 185
The dim-witted man laments, with loud cries, the...
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Gātha 184
If those who cause happiness are considered friends...
Note 1:
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Ācārya Pūjyapāda’s Samādhitaṅtram:
Whenever the ascetic – introverted-soul (antarātmā) – notices that due to the fruition of deluding karmas imperfections like attachment and...Read more
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Gātha 183
Delusion (moha) is like a wound, similarly painful....
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Gātha 182
Just as the seed produces root and shoot, in the same...
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Gātha 181
Aversion to virtues and attachment to evils cause...
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
Only through avipāka nirjarā, attained through austerities (tapa) as attachment (rāga) and aversion (dveṣa) are extirpated, bondage of new karmas is stopped.
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Gātha 179
The stick of the churner is perennially bound with...
Only through avipāka nirjarā, attained through austerities (tapa) as attachment (rāga) and aversion (dveṣa) are extirpated, bondage of new karmas is stopped.
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
Shedding (nirjarā) of karmas is of two kinds: savipāka and avipāka. Savipāka nirjarā is without effort, as the fruits of karmas are naturally enjoyed. This kind of nirjarā is experienced by all, for karmas...Read more
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Gātha 178
Like the churning equipment (to...
Shedding (nirjarā) of karmas is of two kinds: savipāka and avipāka. Savipāka nirjarā is without effort, as the fruits of karmas are naturally enjoyed. This kind of nirjarā is experienced by all, for karmas...
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Gātha 177
The ascetic who knows the nature of the...
Note 2:
See Ācārya Samantabhadra’s Āptamīmāṃsā (Devāgamastotra) – Deep Reflection On The Omniscient Lord, p. 158-159. Cf.
‘Saṁvara [part 4267]’ gātha 10-102...Read more
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
Ācārya Samantabhadra’s Āptamīmāṁsā (Devāgamastotra):
The fruit of the first kind of pramāṇa – direct (pratyakṣa) or omniscience (kevalajñāna) – is equanimity...Read more
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Gātha 176
As the jewel gets purified and resplendent on...
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Gātha 175
The fruit of meditating on the knowledge-nature of...
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
Ācārya Samantabhadra’s Āptamīmāṁsā (Devāgamastotra):
If it be accepted that the objects of knowledge have ‘absolute non-existence’ (abhāvaikānata) character and their...Read more
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
Ācārya Pūjyapāda’s Samādhitaṅtram, gātha 5:
The one who entertains delusion that the body and the like are but the soul is the extroverted-soul (bahirātmā), the one who entertains no...