Gaina sutras

SR No.: 020334
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Jacobi
Publisher: Clarendon Perss
Publication Year: 1884
Total Pages: 385
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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ÂKÂRÂNGA SÚTRA.
Those who are free from sinful acts are called anidâ na'. Hence a very wise man should not be inflamed (by wrath). Thus I say. (3)
Fourth LESSON. One should mortify (one's flesh) in a low, high, and highest degree, quitting one's former connections, and entering tranquillity. Therefore a hero is careful, a person of pith, guarded, endowed (with knowledge, &c.), and always restrained. Difficult to go is the road of the heroes, who go whence there is no return (final liberation). Subdue blood and flesh. (1)
That man is called a worthy one, a hero, one to be followed, who living in chastity (guarding his eyes) shakes off the aggregate 3.
He who desires the current of karman, is a fool who has not cut off the fetters of, nor conquered the connection with, (the world.) For such as dwell in darkness, and are without knowledge, there is no success in faith. Thus I say. (2)
Whence should he have it 4, who does not get it
1 If we read nivvudâ pâvakammehim aniyânâ viyâhiyâ, we have a hemistich of a sloka.
2 Sârae. The commentators translate it with svârata = su + â (â givanamaryâdâyâ) + rata (samyamânushthâne), for ever delighting in the exercise of control. I think the Sanskrit prototype of sârae is saraka.
3 These words seem to have formed a sloka, which could easily be restored if we read: purise davie vîre âyânigge viyâhie 1 vâsittà bambhakeramsi ge dhunâi samussayam 11 The aggregate is either that of the constituent parts of the body, i. e, the body itself, or that of karman, i.e. the sum of karman.
* Success in faith.