Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 2 Vibhag 2

SR No.: 008003
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 802
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion
File Size: 20 MB

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charming all over their bodies-and to commence the practice of austerities. Therefore, for the present you enjoy all worldly pleasures with your dear wives, and with declining age, you take dikså along with your wives.
Jamāli said:-Mother! These sensual pleasures of human beings originate in localities-full of urine, foeces, pus, semen, and blood, and they are distressing on account of unpleasant exalations resembling foul odour coming out from a dead body. They are indecent, of short duration, and capable of accomplishment after great trouble. These worldly pleasures give delight to the minds of unwise persons, but for good people, they are censurable and they increase the wanderings in the four kinds of existance in the samsara to infinity. If these sensual pleasures are not left off like a piece of wood remaining half-burut in the hand, they are productive of innumerable severe miseries, and they create obstacles in the path of Final Bliss.
Then, how can wise men indulge in these sensual pleasures even for a moment? Besides, who, desirous of living long, will ever take a poison named tâlapuţa (a kind of poison capable of causing instantaneous death). Or, who will touch the cave-like mouth of a lion with sharp-pointed teeth? Or, who will enter into the fire of vajra (thunder-bolt) terrible with masses of flames? Or, who will walk on the sharp-pointed blade of a sword? Or, some one may perhaps do all the things named above with the help of some celestial being etc, but no one has ever attained happiness even for a moment by enjoying sensual pleasures. If however, some ignorant stupid persons may perhaps engage themselves in sensual pleasures in some ways, but then, is it proper that persons acquainted with the doctrines of the Jinésvaras, should do so?
On hearing this, Jamali's mother said: - O child! Here, there is much gold, silver, kāṇsu (bell-metal) etc. much clothing, and accumulated wealth acquired from a succession of ancestors, wh