Jain Journal 1971 04

SR No.: 520022
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 1971
Total Pages: 96
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 4 MB

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kind of thought arose in you: "Verily the dullards serve a dullered, the shaved serve a shaved, the fools serve a fool, the illiterate serve an illiterate, the ignorant serve an ignorant. How is it that this person though dullard, shaved, foolish, illiterate, and ignorant is possessed of lusture, modesty, and bright body ? What food does this person take, how does he digest, eat, drink offer, and take that he speaks so loudly in the centre of so great a congregation, an assembly of men ? I am not able to move freely even in the ground of my own garden?' Is this matter, Pradesi, quite right?" "Yes, it is.” Then that king Pradesi said thus to Kesi, the young monk: “By what sort of knowledge or faith is it that you knew and saw, such kind of my thought and determination arisen in my mind?” Then that Kesi, the young monk said thus to king Pradesi : “In this way, Pradesi, is our five-fold knowledge of Nirgrantha expounded : knowledge obtained from five senses and mind, knowledge obtained from the sacred literature, knowledge of objects situated within a certain distance, direct knowledge of the thoughts of others, and the perfect knowledge of all things. ... Among these (knowledges) that which is the knowledge obtained from five senses and mind is in me. ..., that which is the knowledge of objects situated within a certain distance is also in me...., that which is the knowledge of the thoughts of others is also in me..., that which is the kevala knowledge is not in me. That is only in the Revered Arihants. It is by this four-fold knowledge of a Chadmastha, that I, O Pradesi, know and see that in you such a thought has arisen."
Then that king Pradesi said thus to Kesi, the young monk, : “May I sit down here, Sir ?” “Pradesi, you are certainly the best knower of this garden ground.” Then that king Pradesi sat with his minister Citra, not very far from Kesi, the young monk and said: "Is it, Sir, the faith ... of the Nirgrantha Sramanas, that the soul is different and the body is different, and that the soul is not the same as the body?” Then that Kesi, the young monk, said to king Pradesi : "Yes it is.” “(If it is so), ... well, then, there was a grandfather of mine here in the Seyaviya town, who was irreligious ... and who according to your saying, having earned many sinful deeds ... might have been born in any of the hells as a being of hell. I was his grandson, very dear (and much) loved. So if that grandfather, having come to me, would say, “Verily, I was your grandfather in this very Seyaviya town and was irreligious ... and (so) I am born in hell having earned a lot of sinful acts. So don't you, O grandson, become irreligious ... and earn such a lot of sinful acts ...' I would believe, get convinced and put faith in (that) the soul is different, and the body is different and the soul is not the same as the body. But as my
as not come to me to say so, my believe that the soul is