Gaina sutras

SR No.: 020334
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Jacobi
Publisher: Clarendon Perss
Publication Year: 1884
Total Pages: 385
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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BOOK I, LECTURE 2, LESSON 3.
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ness', blackness, variety of colour (he will always experience); because of his carelessness he is born in many births, he experiences various feelings. (2)
Not enlightened (about the cause of these ills) he is afflicted (by them), always turns round (in the whirl of) birth and death. Life is dear to many who own fields and houses. Having acquired dyed and coloured (clothes), jewels, earrings, gold, and women, they become attached to these things. And a fool who longs for life, and worldly-minded 2, laments that (for these worldly goods) penance, self-restraint, and control do not avail, will ignorantly come to grief. (3)
Those who are of a steady conduct do not desire this (wealth). Knowing birth and death, one should firmly walk the path (i. e. right conduct), (and not wait for old age to commence a religious life),
For there is nothing inaccessible for death. All beings are fond of life, like pleasure, hate pain, shun destruction, like life, long to live. To all life is dear *. (4)
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Having acquired it (i.e. wealth), employing bipeds and quadrupeds, gathering riches in the three ways 5,
1 Hereafter vadabhattam explained by vinirgata prithivi vadabha-lakshanam.
Sampunnam sampurnam, lit. complete, i.e. the complete end of human existence is enjoyment of the world.
3 Another reading mentioned by the commentator is piyayayâ, fond of themselves.
* The original of this paragraph reads partly metrical; after the verse marked in my edition there follow three final pâdas of a sloka.
According to the commentators, the three modes of activity (yoga), action, order, consent, or the three organs of activity (karana), mind, speech, body, are meant.
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