Book Title: Saddharma Pundarika
Author(s): H Kern
Publisher: Oxford

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________________ XII, 13. TRANSMIGRATION. 485 mitted by speech, a bird, or a beast, and in consequence of mental (sins he is re-born in) a low caste. 10. That man is called a (true) tridandin in whose mind these three, the control over his speech (vagdanda), the control over his thoughts (manodanda), and the control over his body (kâyadanda), are firmly fixed. 11. That man who keeps this threefold control (over himself) with respect to all created beings and wholly subdues desire and wrath, thereby assuredly gains complete success. 12. Him who impels this (corporeal) Self to action, they call the Kshetragña (the knower of the field); but him who does the acts, the wise name the Bhatâtman (the Self consisting of the elements). 13. Another internal Self that is generated with all embodied (Kshetragñas) is called Giva, through which (the Kshetragña) becomes sensible of all pleasure and pain in (successive) births. 10. Usually an ascetic who wears three staves (danda) tied together, is called a tridandin. According to our verse this outward sign avails nothing. That man only deserves the name tridandin who keeps a threefold control (danda) over himself. 11. Complete success,' i. e. final liberation.' 12. This (corporeal) Self,' i. e. the body' (Medh., Gov., Kull.), or 'the gross visible body which includes the three sheaths' (Ragh., Når.). "The Kshetragña (the knower of the field),'i. e. 'the individual Soul (Gîva),' (Medh. on verse 13, Nár.), the Paramâtman (Nand.); Râgh. quotes, in explanation of the term the field, Bhagavadgîtâ XIII, 5-6. The Bhâtâtman (the Self consisting of the elements),' i. e. 'the body which is composed of or a modification of the elements, i. e. of earth and so forth'(Medh., Gov., Kull., Râgh.), 'the Self which has the form of the non-sentient, the elements and so forth' (Nar.), or 'the Giva' (Nand.). 13. According to Medh. some' understand by the term Gîva the subtile body (liiga sarîra) which is overspread by Mahat, the Great One,' because the individual soul, which is usually called Digitized by Google .

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