Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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CHAPTER II, 55.
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O Dhanañgayal is far inferior to the devotion of the mind. In that devotion seek shelter. Wretched are those whose motive (to action) is the fruit (of action). He who has obtained devotion in this world casts off both merit and sin! Therefore apply yourself to devotion ; devotion in (all) actions is wisdom. The wise who have obtained devotion cast off the fruit of action; and released from the shackles of (repeated) births, repair to that seat where there is no unhappiness. When your mind shall have crossed beyond the taint of delusion, then will you become indifferent to all that you have heard or will hear. When your mind, that was confounded by what you have heard”, will stand firm and steady in contemplation', then will you acquire devotion.
Arguna said: What are the characteristics, O Kesava! of one whose mind is steady, and who is intent on contemplation? How should one of a steady mind speak, how sit, how move ?
The Deity said: When a man, O son of Pritha ! abandons all the desires of his heart, and is pleased in his self only
· Merit merely leads to heaven, as 10 which see note on last page. Cl. Sutla Nipåta, pp. 4, 136, 145 note.
· Sulla Nipata, pp. 3–7, &c. • Sutia Nipala, p. 21.
• This, according to Ânandagiri, means all writings other than thome on the science of the soul.
'I.e. about the means for the acquisition of various desired things
l.c. of the soul (Sankara), of the supreme Being (Sridhara). Sabotantially they both mcan tbe same thing.
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