Gandharavada

SR No.: 006739
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Esther A Solomon
Publisher: Gujarat Vidyasabha
Publication Year: 1966
Total Pages: 400
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

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GANADHARA 7-MAURYAPUTRA
(1864) Hearing that they had become monks, Maurya came to the Victor thinking, "I shall go, bow down and wait upon him."
(1865) He was accosted by the Victor free from birth, old age and death, and all-knowing and all-seeing, by his name and gotra (as Mauryaputra Kasyapa).
(1866) Are you thinking in this manner: 'Do the gods exist or do they not?' This is your doubt. You do not know the meaning of the words of the Veda. This is what they mean.
(1867) You think the denizens of hell are dependent and unhappy. They are not able to come here. One may have faith in them (in their existence) even on the basis of verbal testimony.
(1868) While the gods are at their free will to go where they like and they have celestial powers, your doubt about them is on account of the fact that (in spite of this) the gods are
never seen.
(1869) Do not entertain this doubt. See for yourself these four kinds of groups of gods of a class quite different from men.
(1870) You should not have had this doubt earlier too for the jyotiska (stellar) gods are directly visible. And we perceive their favour or disfavour on the world.
can also
(1871) If you regard them as abodes, even then it is proved that like a city they must have denizens. They are the gods. It cannot be that abodes are eternally vacant.
(1872) Or you may have a doubt 'Who knows what this could be?' They are definitely vimanas (abodes) as they are