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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ANUGÍTÁ.
(all) bonds. A man who is a friend of all, who endures all, who is devoted to tranquillity', who has subdued his senses, and from whom fear and wrath have departed, and who is self-possessed?, is released. He who moves among all beings as if they were like himself?, who is self-controlled, pure, free from vanity' and egoism, he is, indeed, released from everything. And he, too, is released who is equable towards both life and death", and likewise pleasure and pain, and gain and loss, and (what is) agreeable and odious". He who is not attached to any one, who contemns no one, who is free from the pairs of opposites, and whose self is free from affections?, he is, indeed, released in every way. He who has no enemy, who has no kinsmen, who has no child, who has abandoned piety, wealth, and lust altogether, and who has no desire, is released. He who is not pious and not impious ®, who casts off (the merit or sin previously accumulated, whose self is tranquillised by the exhaustion of the primary elements of the body, and who is free from the pairs of opposites, is released. One who does no action 10, and who has no desire, looks on this universe as
"This, in the terminology of the Vedanta, means keeping the mind from everything save 'hearing' &c. about the Brahman. • One who has his mind under his control. But see Gità, p. 63.
Cf. Gità, p. 71. • I.e. the desire to be honoured or respected, Arguna Misra. Cr. Sanatsugârîya, p. 161.
• Who does not care when death comes. • Cf. p. 151 supra. ' Cf. Gitâ for all this, pp. 101, 103, 125, &c. Cf. Kaiha, p. 101.
• Nilakantha says this means the constituents of the body. Arguna Misra says, “Prâna or life-wind,' &c. They are seven. See gloss on K'hindogya-upanishad, p. 441, and p. 343 infra.
" Because, says Arguna Misra, he has no desire. Nilakansha says this means an ascetic, sannyâsin. See p. 257 infra, note i.
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