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Gātha 49
O soul! Floating in the river of desires, in a state of...
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Gātha 48
O worthy soul! Ignorant of the true nature of...
Note 1:
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Read along with the previous verse, this verse shatters the point-of-view that considers wealth as the vehicle to acquire dharma, happiness, knowledge and pious state-of-existence. Since wealth cannot be...Read more
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Gātha 46
Dharma (right conduct) is that where there is no...
Read along with the previous verse, this verse shatters the point-of-view that considers wealth as the vehicle to acquire dharma, happiness, knowledge and pious state-of-existence. Since wealth cannot be...
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Gātha 45
The wealth of even good men is not particularly...
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Gātha 44
In search of water in his vicinity, the thirsty man...
Note 1c:
Ācārya Samantabhadra’s Svayambhūstotra:
The fire of lust burns the worldly beings from all sides. Indulgence in sensual pleasures does not calm down the lust but, as is the nature of the senses, intensifies...Read more
Note 1b:
EXPLANATORY NOTE:
Ācārya Samantabhadra, in adoration of Lord Kunthunātha (the seventeenth Tīrthaṅkara), avers the futility of sensual pleasures.
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Gātha 43
It is a pity that ignorant men, burning with the fuel...
The fire of lust burns the worldly beings from all sides. Indulgence in sensual pleasures does not calm down the lust but, as is the nature of the senses, intensifies...
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Gātha 42
Why, in search of happiness, since long, are you...
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Gātha 41
The stage of the householder for even those rich in...
Note 1:
EXPLANATORY NOTE:
Ācārya Pūjyapāda’s Iṣṭopadeśa:
The poor man who accumulates wealth so as to be able to spend it in future on virtuous activities, like giving of gifts, is like the man who deliberately...Read more
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Gātha 40
Even the ‘king-of-kings’ (cakravartī) who...
The poor man who accumulates wealth so as to be able to spend it in future on virtuous activities, like giving of gifts, is like the man who deliberately...
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Gātha 39
In spite of your limitless craving, the sense-objects...
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Gātha 38
What taste is there in the bitter poison of...
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Gātha 36
Every living being carries in him that deep pit of...
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Gātha 35
The one who is blinded by the (lust of) sense-pleasures...
Note 1:
Yāma, the personified death or god of death. For a meditation on soul surviving death is in theKaṭha Upaniṣad: The sacrifice of Naciketas Nakecitas, cf.
‘Saṁvara [part 230-231]’...Read more
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Gātha 34
Under the spell of delusion (moha), both, the son and...
Yāma, the personified death or god of death. For a meditation on soul surviving death is in theKaṭha Upaniṣad: The sacrifice of Naciketas Nakecitas, cf.
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Gātha 33
Worthy saints who have vanquished delusion (moha) and are disciples...
Note 3:
Airāvata (or Airāvaṇa) Indra’s Elephant. For the detailed description see
‘Saṁvara [part 2098]’ https://www.facebook.com/groups/692614454130155/permalink/1718877228170534.
Airāvata is also one of the...Read more
Note 1:
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Read along with the previous verse, this verse shatters the point-of-view that considers wealth as the vehicle to acquire dharma, happiness, knowledge and pious state-of-existence. Since wealth cannot be...