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. THE ANUPREKSAS AND JAINA RELIGIOUS POETRY संकल्पकल्पतरुसंश्रयणात्त्वदीयं चेतो निमज्जति मनोरथसागरेऽस्मिन् । तत्रार्थतस्तव चकास्तिं न किंचनापि पक्षे परं भवसि कल्मषसंश्रयस्य ॥ [saṃkalpakalpatarusaṃśrayaṇāttvadīyaṃ ceto nimajjati manorathasāgare'smin | tatrārthatastava cakāstiṃ na kiṃcanāpi pakṣe paraṃ bhavasi kalmaṣasaṃśrayasya || ] 303 Thy heart is submerged in the ocean of desire, because it clings to the
all-giving tree of imagination. Thou dost thereby gain really nothing,
but only followest the path to sin (2.132 ).
सेयं विभूतिषु मनोषितसंश्रयाणां चक्षुर्भवत्तव निजार्तिषु मोघवान्छम् ।
पापागमाय परमेव भवेद्विमूढ कामात् कुतः सुकृतदूरवतां हितानि ॥
[seyaṃ vibhūtiṣu manoṣitasaṃśrayāṇāṃ cakṣurbhavattava nijārtiṣu moghavāncham |
pāpāgamāya parameva bhavedvimūḍha kāmāt kutaḥ sukṛtadūravatāṃ hitāni ||
] Thy mind, o fool, absorbed in its hankerings and frustrated in its desires,
jealously contemplates the splendour of the objects of desire, but only paves
the way to sin. How can those who are remote from virtue acquire joys
by merely yearning for them ? (2.133 ).
दौर्विध्यदग्धमनसोऽन्तरुपात्तभुक्तेश्चित्तं यथोल्लसति ते स्फुरितोत्तरङ्गम् ।
धानि स्फुरेद्यदि तथा परमात्मसंज्ञे कौतस्कुती तत्र भवेद्विफला प्रसूतिः ॥
[daurvidhyadagdhamanaso'ntarupāttabhukteścittaṃ yathollasati te sphuritottaraṅgam |
dhāni sphuredyadi tathā paramātmasaṃjñe kautaskutī tatra bhavedviphalā prasūtiḥ ||
] Thy birth would never be futile, if thy heart delighted in the Light called
the Supreme Self, in the same way as it cheers up, heaving with the waves
of desire, when thou thinkest of imaginary pleasures, thy mind consumed
by penury (2. 134).
8. SAMVARANUPREKṢA
(Thoughts on the Stoppage of the Influx of Karma)
आगच्छतोऽभिनव कार्मणरेणुराशेर्जीवः करोति यदवस्खलनं वितन्द्रः ।
सत्त्वचामरधरैः प्रणिधान हस्तैः सन्तो विदुस्तमिह संवरमात्मनीनम् ॥
[āgacchato'bhinava kārmaṇareṇurāśerjīvaḥ karoti yadavaskhalanaṃ vitandraḥ |
sattvacāmaradharaiḥ praṇidhāna hastaiḥ santo vidustamiha saṃvaramātmanīnam ||
] The watchful Soul stops the oncoming dust of ever-new Karmas, with the
helping hand of meditation, upholding the banner of right doctrines. The
good in the world call this samvara (stoppage) that benefits the soul (2.135 ).
नीरन्ध्र संधिरवधीरितनीरपूरः पोतः सरित्पतिमपैति यथानपायः ।
जीवस्तथा क्षपितपूर्वतमः प्रतानः क्षीणास्रवश्च परमं पदमाश्रयेत ॥
[nīrandhra saṃdhiravadhīritanīrapūraḥ potaḥ saritpatimapaiti yathānapāyaḥ |
jīvastathā kṣapitapūrvatamaḥ pratānaḥ kṣīṇāsravaśca paramaṃ padamāśrayeta ||
] Like as a boat without holes and joints safely traverses the ocean, defying
the surge of waters; similarly, the soul, with the expanse of earlier Karma
destroyed, and the influx of new ones stopped, reaches the Supreme
Goal (2. 137 ).
9. LOKĀNUPREKSÃ
(Thoughts on the Universe )
मध्याधरोर्ध्वरचनः पवनत्रयान्तस्तुल्यः स्थितेन जघनस्थकरेण पुंसा ।
एक स्थितिस्तव निकेतनमेष लोकस्त्रस्यन्निकीर्णजठरोऽग्रनिषण्णमोक्षः ॥
[madhyādharordhvaracanaḥ pavanatrayāntastulyaḥ sthitena jaghanasthakareṇa puṃsā |
eka sthitistava niketanameṣa lokastrasyannikīrṇajaṭharo'graniṣaṇṇamokṣaḥ ||
] Composed of the upper, the middle and the lower regions, and bounded by
1 For the Jaina idea of the paramātman see Chap. X.