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DHALA
2
1
The
Jiva being overwhelmed by wrong belief, wrong knowledge and wrong
conduct wanders in the world and suffers the pain of birth and
death. Therefore, after knowing then well we should leave them. I
(the author) describe them in brief
listen. 1.
2.
On the path to liberation the categories like the Jiva etc.
are relevant to our purpose. A wrong believer posits this faith in
their antitheses. The Jiva is characterized by consciousness and is identical
with upayoga i.e., consciousness in action. It is an embodiment of
consciousness, and it does not possess form and is matchless. 2.
3.
The process of functioning of the Jiva is different
from that of matter (Pudgal), space (akarsa), medium of motion
(dharma) medium of rest (adharma) and time (kala). A wrong believer,
being ignorant of the fact and holding it to be its opposite,
identifies his body as his self. 3.
4. (A
wrong believer thinks) I am happy, I am unhappy, I am poor, I am
rich, I possess wealth, house, animal-wealth and influence, I have
sons and wife, I am powerful, I am helpless, I am ugly, I am
handsome, I am foolish and I am wise. 4.
5. If the body id born, he thinks he is born. If the
body is destroyed, he thinks he is destroyed. Attachment etc. are
the clear sources of sufferings, but the wrong believer indulges in
them and reckons them as comfortable. 5.
6.
He, forgetting his own (pure) status, likes the fruits of the auspicious
karma and dislikes those of the inauspicious one. Knowledge free
from attachment and aversion is beneficial to the soul; but he
thinks it a source of suffering for himself. 6.
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7. The
wrong believer thus losing his own sterngth, does not resist his
desires; and therefore he fails to have a glimpse of the blissful
and unpurturbed state of his self. Whatever knowledge supported by
such a belief is there, know it to be wrong knowledge, responsible
for begetting sufferings. 7.
8. Supported by wrong belief and wrong knowledge indulgence
in the pleasures of the senses is to be known as wrong conduct.
Theses wrong belief wrong knowledge and wrong conduct which have
been accompanying the Jiva for beginingless times are unacquired.
Now listen to those (type of wrong belief etc.) the Jiva acquires in
his life-time. 8.
9,10,11,12. Those who serve the false preceptor, false God
(divinity) and false religion feed the long-lasting belief-deluding
–karmas. Those that have attachment etc. in their hearts,
externally love wealth, clothes and possessions, and thus posing
saint hood, maintain a wrong external mark, are the false
preceptors. They are like boats made of stone to cross the water of
births (and deaths). Those whose minds are dirty with attachment and
aversion and who are recognized by such signs as wives, clubs etc.,
are the wrong gods. The foolish persons who serve them will never be
able to end the cycle of their worldly wanderings. Along with the
actions which are soiled by attachment, violence, the physical
killing of mobile and immobile organisms constitute wrong religion.
By believing in such a religion the Jiva gets miseries. It is known
as the acquired type of wrong belief. Now listen to the acquired
type of wrong knowledge. 9, 10, 11,12.
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13. The study of scriptures which are written by Kapil and
the like, which are rendered inconsistent on account of the
blemishes of upholding absolute views, which breed passions and are
inauspicious is called wrong knowledge. It brings great sufferings.
13.
14, 15. Entertaining
a desire for reputation, gain and respect etc. and burning one’s
body in various ways (performing bodily penances), and all such
activities which are devoid of the discriminatory knowledge of soul
and non-soul are the various ways of mortifying the body.
They all constitute wrong conduct and must be
abandoned. Now follow the way of the soul’s emancipation. Oh
Daulatram, dissociating yourself from the net-work of worldly
wanderings, engage yourself well in the work of redemption of tour
soul. 14,15
END OF DHALA TWO
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