Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 6

SR No.: 001006
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1962
Total Pages: 446
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Mythology, Story, N000, & N010
File Size: 21 MB

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PRÉVIOUS BIRTHS the night,49 that I censure in three ways. Anger, conceit, deceit, greed, love, hate, quarreling, back-biting, criticizing others, slander and whatever transgression in the sphere of the principles of good conduct, that I renounce completely in three ways. Whatever transgression against penance-outer and inner, that I censure threefold in three ways. Whatever exertion in religious practices I concealed 50 and transgression against the practices of exertion,51 that I censure in three ways.
Whoever was struck or harshly addressed by me; anyone f.om whom I took anything; anyone to whom I did any injury, may they all pardon me. Friend or foe whoever, my own people or hostile people, may they all pardon me everything. I am the same toward all. Whatever animals in their status as animals; whatever hell-inhabitants in their status as hellinhabitants; whatever gods in their status as gods; whatever humans in their status as humans have been caused pain by me, may they all pardon me. I pardon them. Indeed there is friendliness toward all on my part.
Life, youth, wealth, beauty, association with friends, all this is as fleeting as ocean-waves stirred by the wind. There is no other dharma except the dharma taught by the Jina that is a refuge for creatures in this world tormented by disease, birth, old age, and death. All souls are kin; after they are born, they are strangers. Who would make any tie at all with them? One creature is born; one dies; one has pleasant experiences; he has painful experiences. On the one hand, this body; while on the other hand are grain, money, et cetera; on the one hand relatives; on the other hand, the soul.
The foolish man becomes confused uselessly. What intelligent man would form an infatuation for the body, the
49 239. Jains are forbidden to eat at night. Cf. V, pp. 270 f.
50 243. Such as committed by Mallinātha in a former birth. She performed extra penance and concealed it from her fellow-ascetics. It was as a result of this that she was born a woman. IV, p. 53.
51 243. The Sūtrakstānga 1.8 deals with vīrya. It is one of the 4 infinities' of Siddhas.