Prasamrati Prakarana

Author(s): Umaswati, Umaswami, Mahesh Bhogilal, V M Kulkarni
Publisher: Nita M Bhogilal & Others

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in the state of his community etc. (about which he has been proud in this birth). (see Appendix, Story No. 5).
99. Thus the Saint (Muni), who wishes to uproot all the various prides from within himself, should stop praising his own qualities and speaking disparagingly of others.
100. By condemning others and speaking disparagingly of them, and by praising oneself, there is the formation of low Gotra Karma which is so very powerful that it cannot be removed and has to be suffered (from and by the Atman) for a myriad of lives.
101. In the human state, there are, as a matter of classification, these classes; namely, high, medium and low. These are due to the fruition of the Gotra Karma. The same is there in the world of animals, birds and insects. The differences in the states of human beings and animals, birds, insects, etc. are due to the conception taking place in different kinds of wombs.
102. Thus, seeing the disparity in respect of varied painful circumstances and states of the following; namely, of the country of one's birth, of one's family, of one's body, of one's knowledge, of one's life span, of one's strength, of one's worldly pleasures, and of one's wealth - how can a learned man feel joy towards such a world ?
103. He, who is helplessly under the command of his five senses and fettered by the fruition of his attachment and hatred, is unable to distinguish between right and wrong. Because of this, he is a great pain and burden to himself and to others.
104. Thus in order to reach a degree of purity of one's Ātman there should be careful effort in discarding attachment and hatred; and in pacifying the five senses.
105. How can he, who craves for the sense objects (which are unholy), how can such an indulgent man overcome the attachment to these sense objects ? The answer is : Even if one's heart is