Sannyasa Dharma

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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SANNYASA DAARMA
(3) Samsaru anuprekshâ, -The samszra is the transmigratory condition of existence. This is so full of nuisery and pain and insufferable anguish that no one who has his mental faculty intact can ever imagine it to be otherwise. The thoughtless are deluded by the fleeting show of pleasures they experience or rather imagine that they can experience in this home of misery and woe. Few there are who are not deluded by the worldly lusts—the lusts of the eyes, and of the ears, and of the remaining senses, touch and others. Some argue themselves into a soothing lullaby
-the enjoyer of to-day is not the sufferer of tomorrow ; continuity is not accompanied by identity ; the pain one suffers now is surely not felt by the cause or causer of it in the past! Alas! vain delusions these ! Real is the pain, real its experience, and real also its experiencer. The absence of knowledge that the causer of the pain is also the experiencer thereof makes no difference to the experience itself or lessens its intensity. He who groans insensibly is not any the less the same individual who was conscious a moment before or who will be conscious a moment later! Man's life affords but a few passing moments of pleasure in the course of an existence that is full of worry and anxiety and distress. But what is to be said of animals and smaller insects and plants? These are sub. ject, throughout life, to constant cutting and piercing and boiling and tearing asunder! He who aspires to conquer death must never forget, but ever keep before his mind, that the samsāra is the most undesirable
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