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Niyamasāra
नियमसार
निश्चय प्रायश्चित्त का स्वरूप - The real expiation (prāyaścitta) – कोहं खमया माणं समद्दवेणज्जवेण मायं च । संतोसेण य लोहं जयदि खु ए चहुविहकसाए ॥११५॥ क्रोध को क्षमा से, मान को स्वकीय मार्दव से, माया को आर्जव से और लोभ को संतोष से - इस तरह चतुर्विध कषायों को ज्ञानी जीव निश्चय से जीतता है।
Surely, the knowledgeable soul vanquishes the four passions (kasāya) as follows: anger (krodha) by forbearance (kşamā), pride (māna) by modesty (mārdava), deceitfulness (māyā) by straightforwardness (ārjava), and greed (lobha) by contentment or purity (sauca).
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Forbearance – kşamā – is the absence of defilement, in form of anger (krodha), in the ascetic, who, as he goes out for food for preserving the body, meets with insolent words, ridicule or derision, disgrace, bodily torment, and so on, from vicious people. Modesty (humility) - mārdava - is the absence of arrogance or egotism on account of high birth, rank, and so on. 'Mārdava' implies destruction of pride (māna). Straightforwardness - ārjava - is freedom from crookedness in activity (yoga). Arjava' implies destruction of deceitfulness (māyā). Purity-śauca – is freedom from greed (lobha).1
1 - see Acārya Umāsvāmi's Tattvārthasūtra – With Explanation in English from Acārya Pujyapāda's Sarvārthasiddhi, p. 353-354.
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