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The ignorant aspirant who has fallen from the religious discipline finds himself entangled in the cycle of birth and death. Bhāsyam Sūtra 48
The monk who falters even after attaining the very rare power of discrimination which is the summum bonum of this life, instead of engaging himself in the spiritual fight, falls down from the discipline and entangles 15 himself in the cycle of entering the womb and the like. 16 'And the like' means birth, death and suffering.
5.49 ōssim ceyam pōvvuccōti, rBvōmsi vā chaṇamsi vā.
In the discipline of the Jina, it is forcefully laid down that the person indulging into the material objects and acts of violence necessarily slides back from the spiritual path.
Bhāsyam Sūtra 49
In this sermon it is asserted that the person who finds interest in material objects and violence, falls down from the discipline and roams from birth to birth. 'Material objects' means the object of the eye, or the object of any other sense organs as well as all worldly things.17
5.50 se hu ege sōmWviddhōpōhe muιA, õuōhb lagamuvehamāṇe. Only the monk who looks at the world quite differently remains steadfast on his own path.
Bhāsyam Sutra 50
A person attached to the worldly objects thinks only about the material objects as the most precious things in the world. A person addicted to violence regards violence alone as the solution of all problems. The approach of the sage is changed and consequently he looks at the world of sensible objects and the world of violence in a different way. He develops non-attachment to the material objects, and, appreciates them as impermanent and a source of suffering in the end. Similarly, he appreciates that violence is the root cause of all problems, and all suffering is due to violence. The person who has understood this truth is the sage
तुलसी प्रज्ञा अप्रेल-जून, 2008
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| SR No. | 524635 |
| Book Title | Tulsi Prajna 2008 04 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya |
| Publisher | Jain Vishva Bharati |
| Publication Year | 2008 |
| Total Pages | 100 |
| Language | Hindi, English |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India |
| File Size | 5 MB |