Essentials of Samadhishataka

Author(s): B M Chamke
Publisher: S B Chamke Barshi

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Samadhi Shataka
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sorrows; and if the activities are obserevd and obeyed in the light and directions of self-knowledge and the science of the discrimination bring forth the beneficial fruits ard causes to stop the cycle of births and re-births,
According to Acharya Pujypad the hallucination and illusory knowledge of the soul are the root cause of the sorrows and unhappiness, and the science of discriminative knowledge is the way to overcome the worldly difficulties and calamities. The ignorant undergoes the penance, though too much rigorous and prolonged, yet his striving being oriented to and aimed at the Utopia in the Moksha and at getting dissolved and consanguineous there; it is this aim causes his penance to bring him again in the snare and cycle of the birth and re-birth.
On the contrary the penance and austnrities of the enlightened are never directed towards the attainment of the heavenly Utopia; they are never allured of and attracted to the divinely pleasures; they aspire to relieve themselves from such pleasures