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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Having resided in the house of) spiritual awakening, austerity, vows and self-restraint through the directive of vaiue-knowledge, the person moves on happily and he remains steadfast in them throughout life
In whatever manner the wise man is absorbed in an extraordinary spiritual knowledge which is associated with the emergence of much happiness, in that manner he becomes happy by reason of experiencing unprecedented states of non-attachment.
Just as a needle with thread, even if fallen in the heap of straw, is not lost, so also the Jiva (person) with moral and spiritual observances, even if absorbed in the world, does not face
ruin.
If the persons who are devoid of the Jewel of spiritual awakening comprehend the scriptures, even then, since the path of supreme peace (equanimity) has been shunned by them, they remain in the worldly process ( state of mental tension)
The person in whose life even an iota of attachment, etc. (with spiritual perversion) is present does not understand the self, though he has the comprehension of all the scriptures. Since he does not understand the self, he does not understand the non-self. In this way, not understanding (not discriminating between) the self and the non-self, how will he become spiritually awakened?
In the law of Jina ( spiritually victorious) that is knowledge by virtue of which spiritual principle is cognised, mind is curbed and soul is purified.
In the law of Jina ( spiritually victorious) that is knowledge by which the Jiva (person) becomes free from attachment, by which he is absorbed in the virtue and by which (the feeling of) amity is engendered.
The person who knows the self to be unbound and untarnished by Karmas (the filth attached to the soul), who knows its experience to be unparalled and its being to be (internally) undifferentiated, who knows it to be without occupying any space, without any definition and without any middle point, (he) comprehends the entire law of Jina ( the spiritually victorious).
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