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ANANTANATHACARITRA
125
Hari gave
fourteenth Arhat was in the samavasaraṇa. them twelve and a half crores of silver and went to the
samavasarana with Balabhadra. After circumambulating and bowing to the Tīrthanatha, Purusottama and his elder brother sat down behind Sakra. Again bowing to the Jina, Sakra, Upendra, and Sirin began a hymn of praise in voices choking with devotion:
Stuti (213-200)
"So long as you are not their Lord, for so long people's mind-wealth will be violated by sense-objects like robbers. The spreading darkness of anger, the cause of blindness to men's eyes, disappears, indeed, from the collyrium of the nectar of the sight of you from afar. Ignorant people are seized by conceit like a demon, so long as your words like a charm are not heard by them. By your favor emancipation is not far away from people whose chains of deceit are broken, who have attained the vehicle of sincerity. As people free from desire approach you, so (in proportion) you grant them the maximum fruit, variously. Love and hate are like two streams of the river of samsara. From your teaching it is possible to remain in indifference like an island in them. You, and no one else, bear a light for the darkness of delusion for people whose minds are eager to enter the door to emancipation. May we be unconquered by sense-objects, passions, love, hate, and delusion by your favor. Be gracious, O Lord."
Śakra, Madhvari, and Sirin became silent after this hymn of praise, and the Blessed Anantanatha delivered a sermon as follows:
Sermon on the Tattvas (222-288)
Jīva (222-262)
"A creature ignorant of the principles, like a traveler who does not know the road, wanders in this wilderness of samsāra very hard to cross. Jiva (soul), ajīva (non-soul), āśrava (channels for acquiring karma), samvara (methods
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