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 8 - AKAMPITA
(1885) Hearing that they had become monks, Akampita came to the Jina with the intention, 'I shall go, bow down and wait upon him.'
(1886) He was addressed by the Victor, free from birth, old age and death, and omniscient, all-seeing, by his name and gotra (Akampita - Gautama).
(1887) Are you thinking whether hellish beings exist or not. This is your doubt. And you do not understand the meaning of the Vedic words. This is their meaning.
(1888) You think, "The gods Moon and others are directly known. So also even others are known through the accomplishment of the fruit, etc. by vidyā (science), mantra (formula, charm), upayācana (prayer, solicitation).
(1889) But again those hellish beings whose fruit is sruti (word) alone (i.e. who are merely licard of )-- how can they of a kind different (from lower beings, men and gods) because they are not cognised by direct perception or inference, be accepted (as existent)?"
(1890) Admit the (existence of) hellish beings as of soul, etc. on the basis of my perception. Can it be that your own perception alone is perception ? Rather
(1891) even the perception of another is recognised as perception in the world, as (for example) the perception of lion, etc. is accepted (recognised), but it is not the perception of all.
(1892) Or is the perception by the sense-organs alone perception? (Rather) it is so figuratively (secondarily); non-sensuous perception is the true one.