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Prabha Dari: “All that is dependent is the characteristic of suffering”, “Having performed Pratikraman, he became free (573), the well-known conduct manifested, the soul reached the path of ultimate peace, calmed down in its own form, rested in its own form, understood its own form and merged into it. These are all the “types of calming down”. Or, in summary, they are all one.
Such an unprecedented calming down is attained here. That is why this meditation is called “Shamsar-Shampradhan”. Also -
“All that is dependent is suffering, all that is self-dependent is happiness. This is the characteristic of happiness and suffering in summary.” (172)
Meaning - All that is dependent is suffering, and all that is self-dependent is happiness. This is the characteristic of happiness and suffering in summary.
“All that is dependent is the characteristic of suffering, we obtain happiness that is self-dependent;
This is the manifestation of the inherent qualities of the soul, without it, what happiness can we call?” - Shri K. Sajay. 7-2
Whatever is dependent - subservient, is all suffering; and whatever is self-dependent - self-dependent, is all happiness; because it has the characteristic of happiness and suffering. This is the characteristic of happiness and suffering in summary, as the Muni has said.
Even in common parlance, it is said that “Hope in others is always disappointment”. There is no suffering like dependence - subservience, and no happiness like self-reliance - independence. If someone has fallen into despair due to hope in others, he alone knows the suffering of all that is dependent. The suffering of a dependent - subservient nation or people is evident, everyone knows this in the present times. Just as
in practice, so also in the ultimate reality, dependence - subservience is suffering, and self-reliance - independence is happiness. In the ultimate reality, dependence means being subservient to something other than the soul - something different, independence means being subservient to one's own soul - self-reliance. Where there is an expectation of an object, that object-based happiness is
Kritti - TRvaan Duv - All that is dependent is suffering, this is the characteristic of that, in all beings, all that is self-dependent is happiness - this is the purpose, Pataturan - this is what the Muni has said, Samen - in summary, Ksham - characteristic, form, Suvaduy - happiness - suffering.