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Appendix-7: Comparison of Fundamental Principles
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Or. Whatever ungratefulness was done by me due to negligence, whatever was spoken by me, I forgive all of it. Because of attachment and aversion, whatever ungratefulness was done by me, whatever was spoken by me, I forgive all of it.
A sick person asks, "Having taken the vow of non-violence, a person who desires to renounce the world asks about the different types of death. How many types of death are there?" The Acharya said:
There are three types of death, they say, for the ignorant, the partially enlightened, and the fully enlightened.
The third type of death is the death of the enlightened, which the liberated souls experience.
The Arhat Bhattarakas and the Ganadharas also say that there are three types of death. The first is the death of the ignorant, because they are under the control of their ignorance. The second is the death of the partially enlightened, because they are under the control of their partial enlightenment. The third is the death of the enlightened, which the liberated souls experience.
The partially enlightened also experience the death of the enlightened, because they are not different from the fully enlightened in terms of their general control over their senses.
The death of the ignorant is not mentioned here because it is not relevant.
Those who have a pure understanding of knowledge and perception experience these types of death.
A sick person asks, "What about those who are not like this?" The next verse answers this question:
Those who have lost their minds, whose consciousness is unstable, and who are crooked in their ways, die without being called "worshippers."
Those who have lost their minds, whose consciousness is unstable, and who are crooked in their ways, die without being called "worshippers."