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[Essential Sutra]
What I remember, and what I do not remember - the desire of the human mind from time immemorial has been to move its steps towards progress. Whether a student or a businessman, whether an artist or any other seeker, he wants his continuous development and his steps to move forward. But one thing to keep in mind is that the real progress of man is not in increasing wealth, gaining fame, becoming a scholar by acquiring material knowledge, or becoming a leader, but in increasing spiritual qualities. To increase spiritual qualities, it is necessary to keep observing one's mistakes or faults. As long as the seeker is in a state of delusion, filled with karmic actions, it is natural for faults to exist in life. That mistake or fault may be in knowledge or unknowingly, i.e. there is a memory of restraint or fault and sometimes there is no memory. The seeker repents for all of them. Thus, by repenting knowingly, the seeker progresses.
The portion of the sutra from 'Jan Sambharami' to 'Jan Cha Na Padikkamami' is related to 'Tass Savvas Devasiyass Aiyarass Padikkamami'. The meaning of the present sutra is that I repent for all those daily transgressions that I remember or do not remember, that I repent for or do not repent for.
Doubt - What does it mean to repent for those I repent for? Repenting for repentance itself does not seem logical?
Acharya Jinasena has given a beautiful solution to the above doubt. He interprets 'Padikkamami' as 'Pariharami' - 'Sanghayanaadi-Daurballyaadin Jan Padikkamami-Pariharami Karanijan, Jan Cha Na Padikkamami Akaranijan.'
- Aavashyakachurni - i.e. if due to some special circumstances like physical weakness etc., I have left a good deed that I should have done - i.e. not done, and done a deed that I should not have done, then I repent for all that transgression.
Samanoham Sanjay-Viray Padihay... The meaning of this portion of the sutra is - "I am a Shraman, I am a restrained, abstinent, restrained, rejected sinner, I am without attachment, I am endowed with vision, and I am free from illusion and falsehood."
The word 'Shraman' is derived from the root 'Shram'. It means to work hard. Acharya Haribhadra, while revealing the essence of the third verse of the first study of the Dashaevaalik Sutra, interprets Shraman as an ascetic. One who...