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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SANATSUGÂTÎYA.
likewise freedom from all belongings'. Thus have the defects of self-restraint been stated; one should avoid those defects. Freedom from (those) defects is freedom from heedlessness; and that, too, is deemed to have eight characteristics. Let truth be your (very) self, O king of kings! On truth all the worlds rest? Truth is said to be their main (principle). Immortality depends on truth: Getting rid of (these) defects, one should practise the observance of penance. This is the conduct prescribed by the Creator. Truth is the solemn vow of the good. The pure penance, which is free from these defects, and possessed of these characteristics, becomes developed, and well developed. will state to you, in brief, O king of kings! what you ask of me. This (observance) • is destructive of sin, and pure, and releases (one) from birth and death and old age? If one is free from the five senses, and also from the mind , descendant of Bharata ! also from (thoughts regarding) the past and the future', one becomes happy.
Dhritarashtra said: Some people make great boasts in consequence of (their knowing) the Vedas with the Akhyānas as
linence by the commentators, as also at Mundaka, p. 311 inter alia. See also K'handogya, p. 533.
"Son, wife, home, &c.; as to which cf. Gitá, p. 103, and Nrisimha Tapinî, p. 198, commentary.
• The eight mentioned already. Cf. Taitt. Âran. p. 885.
• Cf. Mundaka, p. 312; Santi Parvan (Moksha), chap. 199. st. 64 seq. Immortality=final emancipation. • P. 165 supra.
• Of penance, that is to say. ? Cf. Gitá, p. 109 for the collocation.
Kathopanishad, p. 151; Maitri, p. 161. Sankara seems to take the five and the senses separately; the five meaning the five classes of sensuous objects. • Past losses and future gains, Nilakantha.
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