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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SRI ARANATHACARITRA
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are known as the root and bulb of the tree of all pains, Who would be open-eyed with astonishment in happiness, who would be pitiable in sorrow, who would fail to reach emancipation, if there were no love and hate here? There would be no hate without love and no love without hate. In the avoidance of one of these, both would be abandoned. The faults, sexual love, et cetera, are servants of love; false belief, arrogance, et cetera are attendants of hate. Delusion (moha) is their father, their seed, their leader, their supreme lord, not to be separated from them, the grandfather of all faults.16 It must therefore be guarded against. So these three are faults. Henceforth there is no other fault. Because of these all creatures wander in the ocean of existence. The soul, pure as crystal by its own nature, shares the same nature with these (faults) that have become attributes. Alas! the universe is without a king since people's wealth of knowledge, though in its own form, is stolen by these (faults), robbers before their eyes. Whatever creatures among the nigodas,17 or whoever have emancipation near, their army, untouched by compassion, falls on them all. Why is their hostility for emancipation, or rather for those wishing it, because of which the union of the two is prevented from taking place ? Just as a muni is not afraid of tigers, rogue-elephants, water, and fire, so he fears very much love, et cetera, which injure the two worlds. Alas! the road which is used by yogis is very narrow, at the side of which love' and hate, a lion and tiger, lurk. Victory over the enemies, love and hate, must be won through tranquillity by men free from slackness, eager for emancipation."
Many people became mendicants from the Lord's sermon and there were thirty-three gaṇabhșts, Kumbha,
16 85. I.e., delusion is the parent of love and hate, the sources of all faults.
17 89. A sādhāraṇa jiva, i.e., plant-lives with many souls in one body. See I, n. 29. They are one extreme and people near emancipation the other.