Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 4

SR No.: 001004
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1954
Total Pages: 449
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Mythology, & Story
File Size: 9 MB

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ŚRĪ MUNISUVRATANATHACARITRA
Stuti (165-171)
"This power comes from just the sight of your feet: that such as I am able to describe your virtues. At the time of the sermon we honor your cow of merit which is the mother here of the calf of a chapter of sacred knowledge. People become virtuous at once from understanding your virtues, just as a vessel becomes oily from contact with an oily object. Whoever abandon other tasks and listen to your teaching, they become free at once from former acts. This world is armored by the protective spell of your name. Henceforth, it will not be devoured by Pisacas of sin, O god. No one has fear, Lord, since you bestowed fearlessness on everyone; but I have fear arising from separation from you when I go to my own place. Not only do outer enemies, blind from eternal hostility, become calm in your presence, but also inner enemies, Master. May the recollection of your name alone, a cow of plenty for granting desires in this world and the next, be present to me wherever I am."
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When Sakra and Suvrata had become silent after this hymn of praise, the Master delivered a sermon for the enlightenment of all.
66 171. See I, n. 5.
67 175.
See I, n. 38. See I, n. 56.
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Sermon on yatidharma and householders' dharma (174–190) 'An intelligent person should take dharma, the most valuable part, from this valueless ocean of existence, like a fine jewel from the Salt Ocean. Self-control, truthfulness, purity, chastity, poverty, austerities, forbearance, humility, sincerity, freedom from greed-it has these ten divisions. One who is free from desire even in his body, free from interest even in himself, always indifferent to the one showing him reverence or to the one doing him an injury, able to bear attacks and trials to a great extent, ` his mind penetrated constantly by the mental attitudes, 68
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