Mahaviras Word

SR No.: 001561
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Walther Shubring
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2004
Total Pages: 318
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, Canon, & Philosophy
File Size: 22 MB

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The Lotus (Suyagaḍa II 1.)
down, depressed, concerned, suffering-I [myself] have so acted [that this is the result]; or if another is unhappy, or sad, struck down, depressed, concerned, suffering, then this other so acted [that this is the result]." Thus, this foolish one states the [supposed] reason [for] his own [suffering] or the [supposed] reason [for the suffering of] another when he resorts to 32. the [question about the] reason. But a prudent man states the following: 'I have resorted to the [question about the] reason, [and I think:] I am unhappy, [or:]...suffering-I have not acted so [that this has to be the result]; or if another is unhappy, [or:]...suffering exerts itself, then this other has not acted so [that this has to be the result]." So this prudent man states the reason [for] his own [existing suffering] or the reason [for the existing suffering of] another when he resorts to the [question about the] reason. Truly, I say [thus]: the beings who in the east, west, north [and] south are (independently] mobile or (independently] nonmobile, experience in this way [as fate would have it], collision," have to suffer decline, attain dissolution, arrive at their destiny."
After in such a way [apparently] assessing the necessity [of what happens], they do not 33. indicate [whether]... [as in 17 continued to 19]... in the middle (of sensual pleasures). This is the fourth man, he who [thus] is called the "one who believes in the necessity [of everything that happens]."
34. These four men of different intellect, inclination, disposition, faith, favour, action [and] intention, have all together given up the old attachment, [but] have not reached the noble path. Thus, they can go neither backwards nor forwards; they are stuck right in the middle of sensual pleasures.
35. Truly I say: in the east, west, north [or] south, there are many people, as there are Aryans, non-Aryans, nobles, inferiors, big, small, well-coloured, discoloured, pretty, ugly. They possess land and wealth, sometimes more, sometimes less; they have people, sometimes more, sometimes less. They have come [to us] from such families, turning [to us] some have decided on the way of alms." Some have voluntarily abandoned the relatives and the work
54 Fortune and misfortune, rather, appear of necessity, cp. I 1, 2, 2f.
Compare Ayar. 14, 11 (za. 36, 1917 ed.).
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I.e., on a monastic life.
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