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ĀTMĀNUŚĀSANA – PRECEPT ON THE SOUL by Ācārya GUṆABHADRA (ca. 818–900 A.D.) [48]

    Alexander Zeugin
    By Alexander Zeugin

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    Gātha 46

     

    Dharma (right conduct) is that where there is no adharma (wrong conduct); happiness is that where there is no misery; knowledge is that where there is no ignorance; and ‘gati’ or state-of-existence is that where there is no coming back to the world.

     

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      • Alexander Zeugin
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        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 acquired by pious means only, it can never lead one to the right conduct. Similarly, such wealth cannot be a source of happiness that has no traces of misery. The knowledge that knows directly the whole world is true knowledge; it cannot be got through wealth. And, the fifth state-of-existence – liberation or mokṣa – is the only desirable state-of-existence. That too cannot be got through wealth.

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