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Chapter - 10
Samayasāra The prescription for maintaining equanimity-mental peace and happiness is extremely simple, once the facts about the process of perception is known. One should simply stop taking interest in the physical world and ignore the sense-stimuli which manage to cross the threshold of consciousness and try to produce a psychic reaction. By itself, not even the strongest stimuli can compel the soul to produce a perceptual modification, let alone a hedonic one. All that is needed is to fully engage the machinery of perceptual cognition in self-perception and get absorbed in perceiving infinite glory of the pure self. Those who become angry on hearing the words of censure must learn and realize that words are nothing but a peculiar combination of the material molecules of bhāṣā varganā, and they may succeed in reaching your sense-organ of hearing but they are absolutely powerless to produce either a perceptual or a hedonic modification, unless you yourself permit them to do so. Nothing in the vast environment of physical existence, abounding in sense-stimuli of various types is capable of disturbing you from self-perception, by themselves. And remember that the highest sensuous pleasure is utterly insignificant compared to the spiritual bliss resulting from self-perception.
Transcendental Aspect of Right Conduct
कम्मं जं पुव्वकयं सुहासुहमणेयवित्थरविसेसं।
तत्तों णियत्तदे अप्पयं तु जो सो पडिक्कमणं॥७६॥ kammam jam puvvakayam suhāsuhamaneyavittharavisesam. tatto ņiyattade appayam tu jo so padikkamanam..76
कम्मं जं सुहमसुहं जम्हि य भावम्हि बज्झदि भविस्सं। .
तत्तो णियत्तदे जो सो पच्चक्खाणं हवदि चेदा॥७७॥ kammam jam suhamusuham jamhi ya bhāvamhi bajjhadi bhavissam. tatto niyattade jo so paccakkhāṇam havadi cedā..77
जं सुहमसुहमुदिण्णं संपडि य अणेयवित्थरविसेसं।
तं दोसं जो चेददि सो खलु आलोयणं चेदा ।। ७८॥ jam suhamasuhamudinnam sampadi ya aneyavittharavisesam.
tam dosam jo cedadi so khalu āloyanam cedā..78 णिच्चं पच्चक्खाणं कुव्वदि णिच्वं पि जो पडिक्कमदि। णिच्चं आलोचेयदि सो हु चरित्तं हवदि चेदा॥७९॥ - -:274:-6 For Private & Personal Use Only
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