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 XXIII, 3.
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devotion to dancing, and instrumental or vocal music, all these qualities, O Brahmanas! are described as passionate. The men who meditate on past, present, and future entities in this world', who are always devoted to the triad-piety, wealth, and lust also ? — who acting under the impulse of) desires exult on the success of all their desires, these men, who are enveloped by passion, have (their) currents downwards. Born again and again in this world, they rejoice, and wish for the fruit appertaining to the life after death and that appertaining to this world also. They give and receive, and make Tarpana', and also sacrifice. The qualities of passion have been described to you in many ways, and the action of the quality has also been stated accurately. The man who always understands these qualities, gets rid of all passionate qualities.
CHAPTER XXIII.
Brahman said: Now I shall proceed to describe the third-the best-quality, beneficial to all creatures, and unblamable, the duty of the good. Joy?, pleasure, nobility, enlightenment and happiness also, absence of stinginess, absence of fear, contentment, faith, forgiveness, courage, harmlessness, equability, truth, straightforwardness, absence of wrath, absence of calumnia
' I.c. who are always thinking of what they have done and what they have to do, and so forth. Cl. Gita, pp. 115, 116.
And not that which is higher than these, viz. final emancipation.
See p. 331 and note 6 there. Cf. inter alia, Gfra, p. 48. • Viz. beaven. Cf. Gftá, p. 48. • 1.c. offerings to the manca.
Cf. p. 300 supra, and Sänui Parvan (Moksha), chap. 194, s. 34; chap. 319, st. 36. For nobility, Arguna Misra has manifestation of joy.
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