Samayasara OR Nature of Self

SR No.: 011119
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A Chakravarti
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith
Publication Year: 1950
Total Pages: 406
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 38 MB

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CHAPTER I
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is well brought out by the commentators For example, a person may accept as his own a cloth brought by his washerman which might really belong to somebody else Due to the ignorance of the real fact, he may put on the cloth But when the real owner claims it as his own pointing to his proper washerman's mark, the mistake may be recognised and the cloth may be given up as not his own Similarly a person due to ignorance may call as his own the various emotional features of the empirical Self But when his attention is drawn to the error of such false identification by his spiritual master, he certainly realises his mistake and is bound to discard the alien features as not his own
णत्थि मम को वि मोहो बुज्झदि उवओग एव अहमेक्को।
त मोहणिम्ममत्त समयस्स वियाणया विति ॥३६॥ Natthi mama kovi moho bujjhadı uvaoga yeva ahanekko Tam mohanimmamattam samayassa viyānayā vinti (36)
नास्ति मम कोपि मोहो बुध्यते उपयोग एवाहमेक ।
त मोहनिर्ममत्व समयस्व विज्ञायका ब्रुवन्ति ॥३६॥ 36 I am unique inasmuch as I am of the nature of upayoga, hence no delusion whatsoever is related to me He who thinks like this, the knowers of the true Self call “one free from delusion”
COMMENTARY Nirmamatva without any personal interest, emphasises the former characteristic of nir-mohấtva, freedom from delusion This gāthā reiterates the necessity for discarding all alien feautres of the empirical consciousness “These are not mine I am but the light that illuminates the inner Self as well as the outer cosmos, being all-illuminating pure consciousness I certainly have no personal interest in things resulting from self-delusion” One who thinks like that is said to be free from delusion
__णत्थि मम धम्म आदी बुज्झदि उवओग एव अहमक्को।
त धम्मणिम्ममत्त समयस्स वियाणया विति ॥३७॥ Natthi mama dhammādi bajjhadi uvavoga yeva ahamekko Tam dhammanimmamattam samayassa viyānayā vinti (37)