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Niyamasāra
नियमसार
The one who is free from these eighteen imperfections - hunger (ksudhā), thirst (trsā), old-age Garā), sickness (roga), rebirth (janma), death (maraņa), fear (bhaya), pride (mada), attachment (rāga), aversion (dveșa), delusion (moha), anxiety (cintā), displeasure (arati), sleep (nidrā), astonishment (vismaya), despondency or grief (vişāda or śoka), perspiration (sveda), and regret (kheda) – is called the real (trustworthy) sect-founder
(āpta). All mundane souls in the three worlds suffer due to these eighteen imperfections. The Omniscient Lord who has destroyed, from its very root, all delusion (moha) and attachment (rāga) is absolutely free from these imperfections. On destruction of the inimical (ghātī) karmas, these eleven imperfections must vanish: fear (bhaya), displeasure (roșa, krodha, arati), attachment (rāga), delusion (moha), anxiety (cintā), regret (kheda), pride (mada), liking (rati), astonishment (vismaya), sleep (nidrā), and despondency or grief (vişāda, śoka, udvega). With total absence of the deluding (mohanīya) karmas and in presence of the ocean of pleasant-feeling (sātāvedanīya) karmas, the insignificant unpleasant-feeling (asātāvedanīya) karmas are unable to cause imperfections of hunger (kşudhā) and thirst (trşā). The Lord does not take morsels-of-food (kavalāhāra). The most auspicious atomic particles of the matter (pudgala), fit to turn into the physicalbody-nokarma - help incessantly in maintaining the body. The supremely auspicious body - paramaudārika śarīra - of the Lord does not have the imperfections of old-age (jarā), sickness (roga) and perspiration (sveda). Without the dispositions (bhāva), auspicious and inauspicious that cause the soul to wander in worldly existence, the Lord is free from rebirth (janma). And since there is no rebirth (janma), the final separation of the body from the soul is not termed death; the Lord is, thus, free from death (maraṇa).1
1. श्रीमद् भगवत् कुन्दकुन्दाचार्यदेव प्रणीत “नियमसार', श्री कुन्दकुन्द कहान दिगम्बर
a atef & GRE, 444, Taha, 41€ 1984, X. 15.
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