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CHAPTER LXXXI, 9-LXXXII, 3.
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make an effort and exertion with man, so that his duty falls back behindhand? 16. For, as to every duty and good work which comes forward, that fiend whose name is Tardy speaks thus: 'Thou wilt live long, and it is possible to perform this duty at all times;' and that fiend whose name is Afterwards says: 'Pass on now; it is possible to perform it afterwards.' 17. And these two fiends united keep the soul away from its own duty, till the end arrives; all duties have fallen back behindhand, and it has to experience regret ('hasarat) and penitence. 18. It has no benefit through duty and good works, and departs from this world.
CHAPTER LXXXII. 1. The eighty-second subject is this, that, when thou risest up from the bed-clothes, it is necessary to tie the sacred thread-girdle3 again at that same place, and it is not desirable to put forth a step without the girdle.
2. For it is declared in revelation, that every single step which one puts forth without the sacred thread-girdle is a Farmân sin“, and through four steps it becomes a Tanâvar sin which would be a weight of a thousand and two hundred dirhams5. 3. Therefore, it is necessary to keep watch over oneself, as regards this sin, and to tie on the sacred thread-girdle.
1 Lp has conflict.'
B29 omits behindhand.' s See Chaps. X, XLVI. · See Sls. I, 2, IV, 10, XI, 2.
The dirham being probably about 63 grains (see Dd. LII, 1 n).
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| SR No. | 007677 |
| Book Title | Saddharma Pundarika |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | H Kern |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1884 |
| Total Pages | 2546 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 46 MB |