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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Pravacanasāra
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53. Talk with common people, if it results into auspicious consciousness, for rendering assistance to diseased, revered, young or old ascetics, is not forbidden.'
54. This course of conduct is good for monks; but it is the best for house-holders, whereby alone they (gradually) attain the highest bliss.
55. The auspicious attachment fruits otherwise according to the object with which it is associated, like the seeds, at the sowing time, sown in different kinds of fields.
56. One, who is devoted to vows, rules, study, meditation and charity and who is keeping in mind the aims prescribed by a teacher who has not attained omniscience, will not attain liberation, but attains a pleasurable condition of existence (to be followed by births again).
57. Reverence, service and gifts offered to persons, who do not know the nature of reality and in whom pleasures and passions predominate, result into wretched births among men and gods.
58. Since objects of pleasures and passions are described as sin in the sacred texts, how can those, who are given to them, be able (to cross and) to help others to cross (the mundane existence)?
59. That man, who has refrained from sin, who entertains an attitude of equality towards all religious people and who maintains a band of virtues, joins the excellent path of liberation.
60. Those, that are free from inauspicious manifestation of consciousness and are endowed with pure or auspicious one, can (cross and) help others to cross (the mundane existence); one who is devoted to them attains excellence.
61. Seeing a natural objects in the form of a great saint), one should perform such duties, the foremost of which is standing up, one is to be honoured according to his merits: that is the advice (of Jinas).
62. Meritorious ascetics in this world, it is said, should be welcomed with a stand-up, should be greeted with words, should be served, fed and revered, should be saluted with folded hands and be bowed down to.
1. As a rule he is not to have any familiarity with common people but on some such exceptional occasions it is not forbidden.
2. By observing the course of conduct preached by a non-omniscient teacher one cannot attain liberation which is decidedly superior to heavens.
3. He is a natural object, because he is yathā-jāta-rūpa-dharah without any artificiality