Parmatma Prakash

Author(s): Yogindra Acharya
Publisher: Central Jaina Publishing House

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PARMATMA-PRAKASH.
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262. He who has not amassed Dharma and has not practised Tapas (asceticism) is like a tree (e., his being born as man is useless); he eats the Abhaksha (unclean things, such as meat, wine, etc.), lives wantonly and descends into hell.
263. O Soul! Devote thyself to the feet of the Sarvajna, Vitaraga Deva, and do not indulge in attachment for friends, relations, etc., because these friends, relations, etc., will not give you anything worth having, they will certainly drown you in Samsâra.
NOTE. If you devote yourself to the Sarvajna Vitarâga, you will know Dharma announced by Him, and by following that Dharma you will evolve your own Dharma or Svâbhâva (real, pure nature), that is, you yourself will become Omniscient God. On the other hand, if you involve yourself in attachment for your relations, etc., that will only involve you more into the succession of births and deaths, that is, the Samsâra.
264. If the Samsâri Jivas (worldly souls) be as much in love with Dharma. as they are with the objects of sensual pleasures, they will not fall into Samsara.
265. He who does not practise Tapâsh-Charan (asceticism) with puremind, such a one, although born as a human being, only cheats himself.
266. O Soul! Do not graze the camels of thy five senses uncontrolled, or else thy five senses having enjoyed their Vishaya (objects) will hurl thee down
into Samsara.
NOTE. The meaning is that if you do not control your senses and let them seek their pleasures without any restraint, they will create more passions and desires in you and will drag you along in the transmigratory state for a long time.
267. O Yogin! Difficult is the path of Yoga, the mind can not be controlled with ease; it runs after the pleasures of senses.
268. To enjoy the sensual pleasures is to feed the family of pain. O foolish soul ! do not thyself strike thy shoulder with an axe.
269. The true Yogi is he who having given up the pleasures of his five senses meditates upon the pure, spiritual nature of Self.
270. Those saints who give up sensual pleasures deserve encomium; one who is bald, deserves no credit for having his head shaved.
NOTE. The meaning is that if one has not got wealth, position and other circumstances of sensual enjoyments and he becomes a saint, he does not deserve much credit; it is the man who is surrounded with the objects of sensual enjoyment, and who gives them up all, that does meritorious work.