Agama And Tripitaka Comparative Study

SR No.: 022804
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nagaraj Muni
Publisher: Today and Tomorrows Printers and Publishers
Publication Year: 1986
Total Pages: 804
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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Jayanti - "Bhante! If all the would-be perfected souls are liberated, then there will be no more of them in the world".
Mahāvira - "Jayanti ! It doesn't happen like that. If from different categories of pudgala which are with a beginning, which are limited, and bounded (by nonsphere) on both ends, one atom is taken out during each (smallest) unit of time, and if the process is repeated over an infinite num. ber of clock-wise and anti-clockwise phases of the time-cycle, still the different categories of atoms will not be exhausted; in the same manner, even though the would-be liberated souls who are to be liberated in this life are liberated, the world will not be empty of them."
Jayanti - "Is it good that a living being sleeps or. wakes"?
Mahāvira - "For some, it is good that they sleep; but for others, it is good that they wake".
Jayanti - "Bhante! Why is it so"?
Mahavira - Jayanti! Those who are habitually sinful, who follow sin, to whom sin is very dear, who explore sin, who inspire sin, who are addicted to sin, who take delight in sin, and who live on sin, for them it is good that they sleep. When they sleep, they do not be instruments of sorrow and pain to one-organ beings, to two-to-four-organ beings, to flora bodies and to the immobile beings. When they sleep, they save themselves as well as others from sinful acts. So it is good that they sleep".
Bhagavān Mahavira went on: "Jayanti ! Those who are pious, who follow dhar ma, to whom dhar ma is dear, who explore dhar ma, who uphold dhar ma, who are inclined to dhar ma, who derive delight in dhar ma, who live on dhar ma, - it is good that such be awake. When they wake, they do things which relieve many of their sorrow and pain. When they wake, they become instrumental for pious deeds for themselves as wel as for others. So it is good that they wake. It was with this in view that I said that it was good for some to sleep, and for others to wake".