Agam 05 Ang 05 Bhagvati Vyakhya Prajnapti Sutra Part 02 Bhagvai Terapanth

SR No.: 006599
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tulsi Acharya, Mahapragna Acharya, Mahendramuni, Nathmal Tatia
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2009
Total Pages: 740
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, Canon, & agam_bhagwati
File Size: 20 MB

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Bhagavai 3:1:33
-: 33 :offers auspicious obeisance and performs penance. Then he puts on pure and auspicious ceremonial gown in a proper way. Then he adorns his body with light and precious ornaments. At meal time, he sits in the dining hall on a comfortable seat. Having thus seated himself, he relishes the plentiful food, drink, sweetmeats and dainties in the company of those friends, kinsmen, near ones, own people, relatives and attendants. Relishing them to his heart's content, distributing them and enjoying them, he passes his time. After finishing the meal, he washes his mouth. Having washed his mouth, he is perfectly clean and purified. Then he went to his sitting place where he honours and offers respect to those friends, kinsmen, family members, own people, relatives and attendants with that profuse food, drink, dainties and delicacies, and offering them clothes, perfumes, garlands and ornaments. Then in the presence of those friends, kinsmen, family members, own people, relatives, attendants, he installs his eldest son as the head of the family. Having installed him thus, he sought consent of those friends, kinsmen, family members, own people, relatives, attendants and the eldest son. Having obtained their consent, he shaves his head and initiates himself in the discipline of prāņāma pravrajyā. Having initiated himself thus, he imposed upon himself the restrictive resolve: for whole life till death I shall practise two-day fasts ...... up to I shall consume only rice washing them twenty-one times. Having thought thus and imposing upon himself the restrictive resolve, he practises uninterrupted two-day fasting till the end of his life. He passed his days on the sunbaked ground with upraised arms, exposing his body to the heat of the sun. On the breakfast day after two-day fasting, he departs from the sunbaked ground with the wooden bowl in his hand for begging alms in the city of Tāmralipti from the high, the low and the middle class families without distinction. In his tour, he accepts only rice and consumes them after washing them twenty-one times.
Bhāsya 1. Sutra 33
In the present Sūtra, the causal relation has been established between wholesome acts done in the past and the prosperity in silver, gold, wealth etc., in this life. This was the doctrine in the tradition of the ancient ascetics. Here, the doctrine of Lord Mahāvīra has not been mentioned. It was accepted by the people in general that one earns wealth, gold, grain etc., by means of his wholesome acts. The topic has not been discussed as an established doctrine of karma. Semantics madhyarātri — (puvvarattāvaratta)-midnight. See Bhāsya on Bha. 2.66. kuțumba-jāgarikā -- reflection on family affairs. ādhyātmika....samkalpa --- see Bhāsya on Bha. 2.31. dhana — precious objects; they are of four kinds: gunima (sold in pieces); dhanima