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 XXX, I.
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the end of grief ever pleasure. All accumulations end in exhaustion; all ascents end in falls; all asso ciations end in dissociations; and life ends in death. All action ends in destruction; death is certain for whatever is born ?; (everything) movable or immovable in this world is ever transient. Sacrifice, gift, penance, study, observances, and regulations, all this ends in destruction. There is no end for knowledge. Therefore one whose self is tranquil, whose senses are subjugated, who is devoid of (the idea that this or that is) mine, who is devoid of egoism, is released from all sins by pure knowledge.
CHAPTER XXX.
Brahman said : The wheel of life : moves on; a wheel of which the spoke is the understanding, of which the pole is the mind, of which the bonds are the group of the senses, of which the outer rim is the five great elements, of which the environment is home ®; which
" Cl. Gfrå, p. 45.
. All this is action, the fruit of which is perishable; the fruit of knowledge, on the other hand, is everlasting.
• Literally, time; it seems, however, to stand for the vicissitudes of worldly life. Cf. Svetåsvatara, p. 283. The body is called • wheel of time' at p. 63 supra, but Arguna Misra there says it is the wheel which causes the rotation of the wheel of time.'
• The cause of its being large in dimensions, Arguna Misra; the supporting pillar, Nilakantha I prefer the former, and take the sense to be that worldly life is co-extensive with the operations or 'fancies' of the mind.
• What is outside the elements, the physical manifestations of Prakriti, is beyond the domain of worldly life.
• The possession of home' is equivalent to a dwelling in the midst of worldly life. Hence the idea of homelessness at inter alia Ghe, pp. 101–103.
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