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imitative behaviour in the child cannot have the same effect as in the case of an adult individual. Such an imitative behaviour may be an amusing play and cannot have any real significance. Similarly the performance of tapas and observance of vratas without the necessary background of correct knowledge will be merely imitative behaviour on the part of an ignorant person; hence would not produce the desired goal or ideal. In order to expose the futility of imitative behaviour without the background of correct knowledge, the author calls them balatapas and balavratas.
वदणियमाणि धता सीलाणि तहा तवं च कुव्वंता। 'परमट्टबाहिरा जेण तेणं ते होंति अण्णाणी ॥१५३॥ vadasiyamāņi dharamtā sīlāņi taha tavam ca kuvvastā paramatthabāhirā jeņa teņā te hosti annāni (153) व्रतनियमान् धारयन्तः शीलानि तथा तपश्च कुर्वाणाः ।
परमार्थबाह्या येन तेन ते भवन्त्यज्ञानिनः ॥१५३॥
153. Those who are outside the presence of paramārtha or Supreme Self even though they observe vows, restraints, and rules of conduct and practice austerities are devoid of right knowledge.
COMMENTARY True knowledge is the condition for mokṣa or Liberation. When that is absent, mere external activities such as strict observance of rules of conduct and performance of severe austerities will be of no avail. They by themselves cannot lead to Nirvāņa. Absence of true knowledge will certainly lead to karmic bondage.
परमट्टबाहिरा जे ते अण्णाणेण पुण्णमिच्छति । संसारगमणहे, विमोक्खहे, अयाणंता ॥१५४॥ paramaţthabāhirā je te aạnāņeņā puņņamicchanti samsaragamanahedum vimokkhahedum ayanamta (154) परमार्थबाह्या ये ते अज्ञानेन पुण्यमिच्छन्ति । संसारगमनहेतुं विमोक्षहेतुमजानन्तः ॥१५४॥
१ णिव्वाणं ने ण विदति
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