Prashamratiprakaran

SR No.: 001259
Original Sutra Author: Umaswati, Umaswami
Author: Yajneshwar S Shastri
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 180
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English, Principle, & Philosophy
File Size: 9 MB

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प्रशमरतिप्रकरणम्
सर्वमदस्थानानां मूलोद्धातार्थिना सदा यतिना ।। आत्मगुणैरुत्कर्षः परपरिवादश्च सन्त्याज्यः ॥९९।।
Thus, the monk who is desires to destroy the root of all kinds of prides, should give up entirely pride of one's own virtues and reproach of others. 99.
परपरिभवपरिवादादात्मोत्कर्षाच्च बध्यते कर्म । नीचैर्गोत्रं प्रतिभवमनेकभवकोटिदुर्मोचम् ॥१०॥
In every birth, by the contempt and slander of others and selfpraise, one is destined to be bound by inferior heredity determining Karma which is difficult to be free from innumerable crores of births. 100.
कर्मोदयनिवृत्तं हीनोत्तममध्यमं मनुष्याणाम् । तद्विधमेव तिरश्चां योनिविशेषान्तरविभक्तम् ।।१०१॥
The lower, the higher and the middle (state of) human life results from rise of (heridity determining) Karma. Similarly (the state of) the life of lower beings is distributed on account of difference in one or the other origin. 101.
देशकुलदेहविज्ञानायुर्बलभोगभूतिवैषम्यम् । दृष्ट्वा कथमिह विदुषां भवसंसारे रतिर्भवति ? ॥१०२॥
How does attachment to worldly existence take place in the minds of wise people, when they observe an unevenness of place, family, body, learning, life span, strength, enjoyment and riches in this world. 102.
full of sugarcanes. The Merchant was living only on sugarcane juice and passing human dirt in the form of pieces of Jaggery The Suci. piśāca Brahmin, thinking that it is sugarcane product (that human dirt passed by a merchant), daily eating and living peacefully. But one day accidently, while moving on the seashore he met a merchant and also came to know while conversing with him that what he was eating (thinking as sugarcane product) was nothing but human ditt. He became very sad, because he came to a lonely place to maintain purity but what exactly happened was reverse of it. Thereafter he left that place immediately.