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4 DWĀ IRIMSIKĀS OF SIDDHASENA
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It seems that the discussion of these two words and the idea underlying them is made by the author from Vyavahāra and Niścaya point of view. The cause of worldly life and the means of liberation seem to be the subject matter of this Dwā.
Great men give up all the defects in them but ordinary persons merely leave their homes and relatives and betake themselves to forests, while the liberal-minded persons, given to do benevolence to others, follow these two types of men (16). Here the author seems to have made a synthesis of the two kinds of renunciation, namely, Vyavaharā and Niscaya,
The fruit of Karina, whether good or bad. depends upon its cause. It is necessary, therefore, to have a knowledge of this cause. After knowing the cause of the fruit of Karma, a man has no occasion to repent. Human beings enjoy worldly pleasures through mind and leave them also through their mind. How are we to know the cause of Karma ? Is it in the body or outside ? Is it great or small ? 'The famous line in Saṁskyta :
_ “मन एव मनुष्याणां कारणं बन्धमोक्षयोः" ( which gives utmost importance to mind in bringing bondage or freedom to a man ) seems to have been thoroughly explained by the author in this Dwā (17-18).
Egotism is not born of myness. ( Mamatā ), but Mamatā.---myness springs from egotism. Egotism is the. source of every possible misery in this world (19). Siddhasena thinks that egotism is the root cause of all defects. The remedy to eradicate this egotism is to, meditate on
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