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Bhagavai 6:10:183-185
- 479:The heretics, O Lord! say thus, ..... up to propound thus--All animate beings,
living beings, souls and living substances experience pain exclusively. 6.184 se kahameyam bhamte! evam?
goyamā! jam nam te annautthiyā jāva miccham te evamāhamsu, ahain puna goyamā! evamäikkhāmi jāva parūvemi--atthegaiyā pānā bhūyā jīvā sattā egumtadukkham vedanam vedemti, āhacca sāyam. atthegaiyā pānā bhūyā jīvā sattā egamtasāyam vedanam vedemti, āhacca assāyam. atthegaiyā pānā bhūyā jīvā sattā vemāyāe vedanam vedemti-āhacca sāyamasāyam. How, O Lord! is it so? Gautama! whatever do the heretics say ..... up to propound, was prevarication; I do, however, Gautama! say thus ...... up to propound thus: There are some animate beings, living beings, souls and living substances, who experience pain exclusively, seldom (experience) pleasure; there are some animate beings, living beings, souls and living substances, who experience pleasure exclusively, seldom (experience) pain. There are some animate beings, living beings, souls and living substances who experience miscellaneous feelings-occasionally they experience pleasure and
occasionally they experience pain. 6 185 se keņatthenom?
goyamā! neraiyā egamtadukkham vedanam vedemti, āhacca sāyam. bhavanavaivānamamtara-joisa-vemāniyā egamtasāyam vedanam vedemti, āhacca assāyam. pudhavikkaiyā jāva manussā vemāyāe vedanam vedemti---āhacca sāyamasāyain. se tenatthenam. For what reason? Gautama! the infernals experience pain (almost) exclusively; only seldom (experience) pleasure: The Mansion, Forest, Luminous and Empyrean gods experience pleasure (almost) exclusively, seldom (experience) pain. The earth-bodied beings .... up to the humans experience miscellaneous feelings-occasionally pleasure, occasionally pain. For this reason (it has been said so).
Bhāsya 1. Sūtras 183-185
Among Indian philosophers, some uphold the doctrine of 'universal suffering'. For instance,.it is asserted by Patañjali, "dukkhameva sarvam vivekinah”. _ That 'every thing is suffering for a conscientious person', which presents the attitude of the Sankhya philosophy. Among the four noble truths of Buddhism, suffering is the first, according to which the whole world is burning in fire, there being no occasion for pleasure. The Sāmkhya, the Jain and the Buddhist all three belong to the Sramana tradition and are upholders of the doctrine of suffering'.
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