Tulsi Prajna 2004 04

SR No.: 524619
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2004
Total Pages: 110
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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A person excessively attached to the sensual objects, when unable to have access to coveted women, sometimes commits suicide too. Therefore, attachment to sensual objects leads to death.
The person attached to the sensual objects is born in hell. From hell, he goes to the life of animals. In this way, he goes on transmigration, time and again, from hell to animal life and vice-versa.
2.93
satatam mudhe dhammam ṇābhijāṇai.
The eternally deluded person does not recognize the true discipline.
Bhāsyam Sūtra 93
Involved in the cycle of transmigration in various species of life, the eternally deluded person being bewildered, cannot understand the discipline. Understanding of the dscipline in the state of bewilderment is impossible. Without understanding the discipline, one cannot overcome bewilderment. There is now in human life some break in bewilderment, and so the injunction is made for practising self-awareness and vigilance in the sutra that follows.
2.94
udāhu vire - appamãdo mahāmohe.
Thus proclaimed Lord Mahavira: Practise vigilance against the great delusion (of sensual gratification).
Bhāsyam Sutra 94
The word 'virah' here stands for a Tirthankara of Lord Mahāvīra. He proclaimed the practice of vigilance against the great delusion.
The 'great delusion' means the sexual desires for female, male or hermaphrodite, or desire to indulge in sex.
2.95 alam kusalassa pamāeṇam.
The prudent should not succumb to non-vigilance. Bhāsyam Sutra 95
Where is the chance of non-vigilance for the prudent? 'Prudent' means one who has restrained his attachment or one who has engaged himself in the practice of detachment. What is the scope of non-vigilance in a person who is free from attachment? The cause of non-vigilance is delusion. Only by getting rid of non-vigilance, a person can be free from attachment. Thus, in no case and at no time, desire for sensual objects arise in such person. One who is engaged in practising detachment may sometimes be confronted with the occasion of great delusion. The Lord's counsel to him is: "Thou art prudent, thou art keenly intent on achieving the state of detachment; what is the scope of non-vigilance in thee; thou shouldst always be vigilant."
तुलसी प्रज्ञा अप्रैल-जून, 2004
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