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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
The Upanisads
of a great sage who is free from desires: One hundred times that bliss of divine Gandharvas, is one measure of the bliss of the Fathers and likewise of a great sage who is free from desires. One hundred times that bliss of the Fathers, is one measure of the Devas, born in the agāna heaven;...one hundred times that bliss of the Devas...is one measure of the bliss of the sacrificial Devas who go to the Devas by Vaidic sacrifices, and likewise of a great sage who is free from desires....: One hundred times that bliss of the sacrificial Devas is one measure of the bliss of the thirtythree Devas and likewise of a great sage who is free from desires: One hundred times that bliss of the thirtythree Devas is one measure of the bliss of Indra, and likewise of a great sage, free from desires: One hundred times that bliss of Indra is one measure of the bliss of Brihaspati, and likewise of a great desireless sage: One hundred times that bliss of Brihaspati is one measure of the bliss of Prajapati, and likewise of a great desireless sage: One hundred times, that bliss of Prajapati is one measure of the bliss of Brahman, and likewise of a great desireless sage..;- He who knows the bliss of that Brahman from whence all speech with the mind turns away, unable to reach it, he fears nothing,
He does not distress himself with the thought why did I not do what is good? Why did I do what is bad? He who thus knows these two (good and bad), frees himself. He knows both, frees himself." Thus an effort is made to give some idea of
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1 Taitt. Up. 2.9. Tr. Max Müller, p. 63.
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