Samayasara

SR No.: 006764
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A Chakravarti
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 370
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, & Canon
File Size: 20 MB

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CHAPTER IV
imitative behaviour in the child cannot have the same effect as in the case of an adult individual. Such an imitative behaviour may be an amusing play and cannot have any real significance. Similarly the performance of tapas and observance of vratas without the necessary background of correct knowledge will be merely imitative behaviour on the part of an ignorant person; hence would not produce the desired goal or ideal. In order to exi ose the futility of imitative behaviour without the background of correct knowledge, the author calls them bālatapas and balavratas.
वदणियमाणि धरंता सीलाणि तहा तवं च कुन्वंता। 'परमट्टबाहिरा जेण तेण ते होंति अण्णाणी ॥१५३॥ vadaniyamāņi dharaṁtā sīlāņi taha tavam ca kuvvanta paramaţthabāhirā jeņa teņā te homti aņņāņi (153) व्रतनियमान् धारयन्तः शीलानि तथा तपश्च कुर्वाणाः । Roeraren da aa a aasifaa: 1184211
153. The who are outside the presence of paramārtha or Supreme Self even though they observe vows, restraints, and rules of conduct and practice austerities are devoid of right knowledge.
COMMENTARY True knowledge is the condition for mokşa or Liberation. When that is absent, mere external activities such as strict observance of rules of conduct and performance of severe austerities will be of no avail. They by themselves cannot lead to Nirvāņa. Absence of true knowledge will certainly lead to karmic bondage.
परमट्टबाहिरा जे ते अण्णाणेण पुण्णमिच्छति । संसारगमणहेतुं विमोक्खहे, अयाणंता ॥१५४॥ paramatphabāhira je te annāņeņā puņņamicchamti saṁsāragamanahedum vimokkhahedum ayānamtā (154) परमार्थबाया ये ते अज्ञानेन पुण्यमिच्छन्ति । संसारगमनहेतुं विमोक्षहेतुमजानन्तः ॥१५॥
१ णिव्वाणं ने ण विदति