Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 3

SR No.: 001003
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1949
Total Pages: 441
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Mythology, & Story
File Size: 10 MB

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ŚRI DHARMANĀTHACARITRA
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straight road to the city of emancipation, fully described by teachers, characterized by the abandonment of pain to others, et cetera. Sincere people are a delight to the world. People are afraid of crookedness like a snake. The genuine happiness of emancipation, known to themselves, belongs to the noble-minded honest in thought and deed, though they are still in worldly existence. How can there be happiness even in a dream to those whose minds are injured by the dart of crookedness, their souls deceitful, engaged in injuring others? In the learning of all the sciences and in the study of the arts, sincerity of the fortunate like that of children, appears. The sincerity of children, even though ignorant, is a source of delight. How much more that of minds engaged in interpretation of all the śāstras ! Indeed, sincerity is natural; a crooked character is assumed. Then who would leave natural dharma and resort to fictitious ?
Some fortunate people are unchangeable, like gold statues, in a people full of tricks, slander, evasive speech, and deceit. All the best gaṇabhrts, crossing the ocean of learning, look you! listened like pupils to the Arhats' words because of sincerity. By straightforward confession 214 one can throw away all bad karma; by crooked confession bad karma increases, even though it is very small. There is no emancipation of persons entirely crooked in body, speech, and mind; but there may be emancipation of persons always straight. The wise man, recognizing that the crookedness of the crooked has very severe karma, should resort to sincerity alone, with a desire for emancipation.
Greed (312–330) Greed is the akāra 216 of all faults, a Rākşasa for devouring virtues, a bulb of creepers of calamities, injurious to all things. A man without money wants a hundred;
214 309. Cf. Uttar. 29. 5. Rjubhāva is the result of alocanā. 216 312. The first letter of the alphabet.