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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SANATSUGÂTiya.
possessed of three, two, or even one (of these) become, in (due) course, distinguished (for knowledge) and identified with the Brahman'. [Self-restraint, abandonments, and freedom from heedlessness-on these depends immortality. And the talented Brâhmanas say that truth is chief over them.] Selfrestraint has eighteen defects; if (any one of them is) committed, it is an obstacle (to self-restraint). They are thus stated. Untruthfulness, backbiting, thirsto, antipathy (to all beings), darkness ‘, repining', hatred of people, haughtiness, quarrelsomeness, injuring living creatures, reviling others, garrulity, vexation?, want of endurance, want of courage', imperfection 10, sinful conduct, and slaugh. ter. That is called self-restraint by the good, which is free from these defects. Frenzy has eighteen defects"; and abandonment is of six kinds. The contraries of those which have been laid down " are stated to be the defects of frenzy. Abandonment of six kinds is excellent. Of those six, the third is hard to achieve. With it one certainly crosses
"The original is the word 'taciturnity' as at p. 162 supra.
* Offering one's acts to God (Nilakantha), as to which cf. Gitâ, p. 64. See also p. 182 infra for this stanza. sl. e. for objects of sense.
• Ignorance. • Discontent even when one obtains much. • This is active; antipathy is passive only.
? Of oneself, by brooding on evil. Cf. Taittiriya, p. 119. One copy of Sankara's commentary says this means 'thinking ill of others without cause.'
* Of pairs of opposites. "Restraint of senses in presence of their objects. 10 I.e. of piety, knowledge, and indifference to worldly objects. " I. c. qualities which destroy it. 1 Scil. as defects of self-restraint, viz. un:ruthfulness, &c.
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