Saman suttam Part 1

SR No.: 008022
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kamalchand Sogani
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 119
Language: Prakrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Religion, & Principle
File Size: 6 MB

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(Transcendentally), I am for certain the highest and the pure (self) Again, I am everlastingly free from material qualities and also I am possessed of intuition and knowledge, Apart from the self, even the slightest any other infinitesimal quantity of thing does not belong to me We, to whom nothing belongs, live and reside happily. (This proclamation is similar to that of king, Janaka who said), “In Mithila which is being burnt, nothing (which is mine is being put to flame” (That is the reason we live and reside happily) For the saint by whom son (or daughter) and wife (or husband) have been renounced and who if free from any pecuniary practice, there is nothing lovable and also there is nothing unlovable Just as the lotus which is born of water is not poliuted by water, so also there is the person who has not been contanunated by sense-desires, we call him the realiser of the highest self In whose life there is no attachment, by him suffering has been extirpated, in whose life there is no desire, by him attachment has been uprooted; in whose life there is no greed, by him desire has been cradicated, in whose possession there is nothing, by him greed has been wiped out Verily, the Jiva (empirical self) is (basically) the Brahman ( the transcendental self) The conduct of the saint who has abandoned the practice of gratification through other's body and who dwells in the transcendental self is known as celibacy Seeing all the bodily organs of women (or men), he (or she) the virtuous person who abandons the evil inclination of mind coming up because of them, really observes the virtue of celibacy difficult to be carried Just as the pitcher of lac which has been embraced by fire and has been put to heat by it gets melted soon, so also the saints reach degradation on account of their sexual connection with women (or men)
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