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must not be made much of, but must be over-looked and concealed, and that is upagühana.”
One of the commentators on Samayasära, Amritacandra, evidently had before him the word upabrmhaņa and not upagūhana. The word upabrithana means growing or increasing. With this reading evidently he explains the term as one who increases the powers of the Sell, or ätma-sakti and that a right-believer is called one who lias the soul-power in fullness. Hence in his case there is no karmic bandha produced by lack of soul-power or the weakness of Self. This same word upabrinhaņa is included by both Pūjyapāda and Tkalanka when they enumerate the eight constituent clements or așțāngas of right belief. In commenting upon the Sutra 24 of Chapter VI of Tattvārthasūtra, “Uttamakṣa mādi-bhāvamaya-ātmano dharma-pari-vriddhi-kāraṇam upabțmhanarn”, increasing the true characteristics of the Self through the attitude of supreme forbearance, etc., means upabīmhaņam or increase in soul-power. Jayasena, the other commentator on Samayasāra, evidently tries to combine the meaning of both the words upabīmhana and upagūhana. “Mithyātva-rāgādi- vibhava-dharmānām - upa-gūhaka - pracchada ka-vināśakāh.” Thus he takes the word upaguhana to mean vināśa or destruction and what must be destroyed are the impure psychic states produced by wrong belief, attachment to sense-pleasures, etc. It is extremely difficult on our part to explain how this constituent element upabțihana was supplanted by the element upa-gūhana, from increasing to fullness the soul-power to charitably forbearing the defects in others. Akalanka's Rājavārtika gives us a clue to understanding this transformation. The increasing of the soul-power is effected by means of uttamakşamä, supreme forbearance, etc. One who practises uttamkşamā, etc., not only increases his own soul's potency to fulness, but also by the same process developes the supreme quality of love and forbearance towards others. Persons who go astray either through ignorance or incapacity are forgiven by those great personalities who realise themselves in fulness and thereby evince love and forbearance towards others. They are able to discern the element of goodness in things evil.
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