Unknown Pilgrims

SR No.: 007014
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N Shanta
Publisher: Sri Satguru Publications Delhi
Publication Year: 1997
Total Pages: 820
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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The First Steps on the Path
iv) Kṣetra-sāmāyika
No adverse sentiment should be evoked, whether one is in a royal palace or a wild jungle, for the one and only real "place" is the jiva; all the rest are neither pleasant or unpleasant.
v) Kāla-sāmāyika
The seasons, whether the period of scorching heat or the rains or the cold of winter, should have no effect whatever on the jiva. Here we must introduce the following subtle idea: kāla (time) possesses neither shape, smell, taste nor touch and it is a distortion of kala due to matter when we attribute such to the seasons; the jiva which is formless has no relationship with these manifestations of matter.
vi) Bhāva-sāmāyika
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The jiva (atman) is eternal, pure consciousness; all that is transient, namely, impression, feelings, everything to which psychic manifestations give rise, cannot touch it. According to niscaya, no manifestations of this sort, such as life (the one limited to the body), death, profit, loss, happiness, suffering, friendships, enmities, affect the jiva. Wherefore the attitude towards all other jivas, to whatever category they belong, whether they be persons, animals, or plants, should be one of friendship and respect; this is the loftiest form of sāmāyika.11
B - Caturviṁśatistava: Praise of the twenty-four tirthankaras
This expression is made up of two words: caturviṁśati, twenty four, and stava, praise. It refers to the supreme hymn of praise to the tirthankaras.12
11 For these 5 aspects, cf. ADh VIII, 19-36; for the characteristics of sāmāyika, cf. MA VII, 20-25. As regards virtue in conduct, cf. AnuS 144; for sāmāyika as an obligatory duty, cf. Sth$ 206; 530; as the supreme form of self-control, cf. SthS 428; as the highest of the 5 sorts of conduct, cf. TS IX, 18; US XXVIII, 32.
12 Cf. P 69 ff.; 701.