Prashamratiprakaran

Author(s): Umaswati, Umaswami, Yajneshwar S Shastri
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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मदस्थानाधिकारः
एतेषु मदस्थानेषु निश्चये न गुणोऽस्ति कश्चिदपि । केवलमुन्मादः स्वहृदयस्य संसारवृद्धिश्च ॥९७।।
Ultimately, there is not the slightest virtue in all these sources of pride. And (if any), that is only one's own mental agitation and augmentation of mundane life., 97.
जात्यादिमदोन्मत्तः पिशाचवद्भवति दुःखितश्चेह ।
जात्यादिहीनतां परभवे च निःसंशयं लभते ॥९८।। He, who is mad with prides of high family etc. becomes distressed in this life like a Pigāca 15 and definitely attains birth in lower caste in the life hereafter. 98.
knowledge it is not necessary that one should be wellversed in all Šāstras. It also tells us that even a knowledgable person would not
get liberation without firm faith. 14. Sthūlabhadra Muni's story is often mentioned to tell that one should
not to be proud of one's own knowledge and at the same time one should not inisuse it. Sthūlabhadra Muni was a disciple of Bhadrabāhusvāmi and a great Master of Dasa pūrvas. He was also having some Siddhis attained by Yogic method. But he became very proud of his knowledge. Once Sthūlabhadra Muni's sisters came to meet him at his hut where he used to sit and meditate. To show bis power of knowledge, Sthūlabhadra Muni transformed himself into a lion and sat on his seat. His sisters, seeing a lion in their brother's seat, being afraid, reported this to Sthulabhadra's Guru, viz., Bhadra. bāhu. Bhadrabahu immediately understood that his disciple has become proud of his knowledge and was misusing it. Being pained by Sthūlabhadra's behaviour, Bhadrabahu stopped imparting knowledge of the remaining four Pūrva literature, But after repeated request of the Sangha he taught Sthūlabhadra but did not reveal the secret of four Pürva. So, on account of pride of his own knowledge, Sthūlabhadra was deprived of real kno ledge of the remaining four
Pūrvas So, pride of knowledge is fuitile. 15. This story mentioned by Haribhadra in his commentary on Prasama.
rati seems to be of vulgar type. According to him the story runs like this : once upon a time, there lived a brahmin known as suci. piśīca. He was proud of his own caste. Overcome by the ghost in the form of purity, he left the crowded city, caine to a lonely island and started living in it. Co-incidently in that island a merchant was living since long due to destruction of his ship. That island was only
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