Pravachanasara

SR No.: 003289
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram
Publication Year: 1964
Total Pages: 612
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 16 MB

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65. It is not the body, but the very soul itself, that develops happiness having obtained desired objects that are naturally endowed with the qualities of touch etc.
66. Really speaking, the body does not make any embodied being happy even in heaven; but the soul itself develops happiness or misery coming under the influence of the objects of enjoyment.
67. If the visual faculty of people could remove darkness, then the lamp is of no avail; so when the soul itself is happiness, what then the objects of enjoyment contribute ?
68. Just as the sun, all by himself is lustrous and warm, and a deity of the sky, so also the liberated soul is (endowed with) knowledge and happiness, and is a divinity of the world.
*3. He is Arhan (i.e., worshipful one) whose glory consists of lustre, conation, knowledge, supernatural accomplishment, happiness, affluence and the leading lordship of the three worlds.
*4. I repeatedly offer obeisance to the Siddha, who is superior and never suffering in his merits, who holds lordship over men and Devas and who is never (hereafter) bound to take birth anymore.
69. The soul, that is devoted to the worship of God, ascetic and the preceptor, to the offering of gifts, to virtuous conduct, and to the observance of fasts, is of auspicious activities (or manifestation of consciousness).
70. The soul, endowed with auspicious manifestation of consciousness, is born as a sub-human or human being or a god, and, during that period, obtains different kinds of sensual pleasures.
71. It is evident from the doctrine that the happiness even of the gods is not self-established; oppressed by physical urge, they sport themselves with attractive objects of senses.
72. If men, denizens of hell, sub-human beings and gods (indiscriminately) suffer misery incidental to body, then of what avail is the (distinction of) auspicious or inauspicious activity of the soul?
73. Indra and other sovereigns, quite engrossed as if they are happy, nourish their bodies etc. by means of enjoyments that are the consequences of auspicious activities.
74. If there are, in fact, different merits resulting from auspicious activities (or mental condition), they (merely) occasion a sensual
1. The term upayoga is very difficult to be rendered into English; the shade of its sense often depends on the context; similar is the case with Dharma and other words.