Ardha Magadhi Reader

SR No.: 006743
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: B D Jain
Publisher: Shri Satguru Publications
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 246
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 9 MB

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CITRA AND SAMBHUTA
161 exquisite pleasures : for such things people practise austerities. All this you may have for your asking.' (16).
52. “What avail riches for the practice of religion, what a family, what pleasures ? We shall become Sramaṇas possessed of many virtues, and wander about collecting alms." (17).
53 "As fire is produced in ihe Arani-wood, as butter in milk, as oil in sesamum seed, so, my sons, is the soul' produced in the body; all these things did not exist before, they came into existence, and then they perish ; but they are not permanent.' (18).
54. “(The soul) cannot be apprehended by the senses, because it possesses no corporeal form,2 and since it possesses no corporeal forin it is eternal. The fetter of the soul has been ascertained to be caused by its bad qualities, and this fetter is called the cause of worldly existence. (19).
55. “ Thus being ignorant of the Law, we formerly did sinful actions, and through our wrong. mindedness we were kept back and restrained from entering the order. We shall not again act in the same way. (20).
56. “ As mankind is harassed by the one, and taken hold of by the other, and as the unfailing ones go by, we take no delight in the life of a householder.” (21).
1. An in the original ; it is rendered ATC ny the commentators. Perhaps it is the Prakrit for ; at any rate, the context of the next verse proves that soul is intended.
2. अमुत्त Skt. अमूर्त is here apparently synonymous with 376 fag formless.
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