Tulsi Prajna 2003 10

SR No.: 524617
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2003
Total Pages: 114
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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2.64 savvesim jiviyam piyam. 2.65 tam parigijjha dupayam cauppayam abhijumjiyāṇam samsimciyāņain tivienam jā vi se tattha mattā bhavai - appă vă bahugă vă. (63-65) All beings love long life, relish happiness, hate suffering, dislike torture, love to live, desire for life. To everyone life is dear. However, the person addicted to possession owns the biped, the quadruped and engages them in service by force to multiply his wealth. By triple effort, he amasses wealth in small or big quantity. Bhāsyam Sūtra 63-65 Violence is committed for possession's sake. Humans and animals are also subjugated. in the three Sutras, the accumulation of possession is shown to be done by means of violence. Life is dear to everybody, pleasurable feelings are favourable to all. Suffering is repugnant, torture is distasteful, a life rich in enjoyments is dear to all. They desire to live free from premature and untimely death.18 Everybody wants to live an independent life. Nobody likes domination by others. But, nevertheless, a person, attached to possessions, takes hold of thel ife of the biped and quadruped and accumulate fortune, engaging them forcibly in his service. Such person succeeds in acquiring wealth and property, small large, in triple way: by the effort of himself, of others or of both, or by the exertion of mind, speech and body. As a result he becomes a millionaire or even multimillionaire. 2.66. se tattha gadhie citthai bhoyaņāe. 2.67. tao se egayā viparisittham sambhūyam mahovagaraṇam bhavai. 2.68. tam pise egayā dāyāyā vibhayamti, adattahäro vă se avaharati, rāyāņo vā se vilumpamti, ņassati vā se, viņassati vā se, agăradhāhiņa vā se dajjāi. (66-68) He gets ensured in fortune for its enjoyment. Then at one time, his manifold savings grow into a large fortune; at another time his fortune is divided by relatives among themselves, or stolen by the thief, or confiscated by the king, or is lost, or destroyed or burnt in housefire. Bhāsyam Sūtra 66-68 Such person is overwhelmed with lust for the accumulated wealth. He needs wealth for enjoyment, and so develops delusive attachment to it. Now he strives for preserving his wealth and sometimes his savings become huge and grow to a big quantity. He lives in luxury, heaps of wealth. The accumulated wealth generates ambition in many people. This is an objective truth. Such wealth has three phases: acquisition, enjoyment and
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