Tulsi Prajna 2003 01

SR No.: 524614
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2003
Total Pages: 122
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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Bhāṣyam Sutras 121,122
Happiness is bliss. The words pleasure, delight, fearlessness and happiness are mentioned as synonyms in the Curņi (p.36). The happiness is dear to each creature. Deeply reflecting (i.e., properly pondering) and deeply observing (i.e., rightly considering) this, one should desist from violence. On the other hand deeply reflecting (i.e., properly pondering) and deeply observing (i.e., rightly considering) that unhappiness is unpleasant, one should desist from violence.
Unpleasant, unhappiness, dreadful and painful are given as synonyms in the Sutra itself.
Mobiles: The word prāṇa refers to the aspect of inhaling and exhaling which are evident in mobile beings.
Immobiles: The word bhuta refers to existence through past, present and future, their respiration being not evident.
Souls: Soulhood and life-span characterize the soul (jīva).
Living substances: The word sattvaḥ stands for existence. Their existence is characterized by their good and bad karma.1
1. 123 tasamți pāṇā padisodisāsu ya.
The mobile beings, being frightened, wander in all directions, cardinal and intermediate, overwhelmed by distress. Bhāṣyam Sutra 123
The beings that have the consciousness of movement to and fro are mobile beings. Moreover, they are in distress being afraid, worked, shrivelled and frightened. They flee from one place to another. Hence they are called mobile.2
The purport of the sutra is that the mobile beings flee in all directions, cardinal and intermediate, out of fear. In the Curni the example of silkworm is given. The silk-worm makes sheath out of fear to protect itself. 1. 124 tattha-tattha pudho pāsa, āurā paritāvemti.
Look, passionate people, at different places, are torturing the mobile creatures.
तुलसी प्रज्ञा जनवरी-मार्च,
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