Jaina Sutras Part IJainismAccepted ScripturePrakritShareAcharanga Sutra 21Hermann Jacobi / SBE vol. 22 - EnglishMoreVersion - 1 availableHermann Jacobi / SBE vol. 22LanguageEnglishEspañol‹Acharanga Sutra 1Acharanga Sutra 2Acharanga Sutra 3Acharanga Sutra 4Acharanga Sutra 5Acharanga Sutra 6Acharanga Sutra 7Acharanga Sutra 8Acharanga Sutra 9Acharanga Sutra 10Acharanga Sutra 11Acharanga Sutra 12Acharanga Sutra 13Acharanga Sutra 14Acharanga Sutra 15Acharanga Sutra 16Acharanga Sutra 17Acharanga Sutra 18Acharanga Sutra 19Acharanga Sutra 20Acharanga Sutra 21Kalpa Sutra 1Kalpa Sutra 2Kalpa Sutra 3Kalpa Sutra 4Kalpa Sutra 5›Acharanga Sutra: Sixteenth Lecture - LiberationAcharanga Sutra 21ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1SIXTEENTH LECTURE, CALLED THE LIBERATION. The creatures attain only a temporary residence (in one of the four states of being) ; hearing this supreme truth (i.e. the doctrine of the Tirthakara's) one should meditate upon it. The wise man should free himself from the family bonds ; fearless should he give up acts and attachments, (i) A mendicant, living thus \ self-controlled towards the eternal (world of living beings), the matchless sage, who collects his alms, is insulted with words by the people assailing him, like an elephant in battle with arrows. (2) Despised by such-like people, the wise man, with undisturbed mind, sustains their words and blows, as a rock is not shaken by the wind. (3) Disregarding (all calamities) he lives together with clever (monks, insensible) to pain and pleasure, not hurting the movable and immovable (beings), not killing, bearing all : so is described the great sage, a good 6'rama;^a. (4) As the lustre of a burning flame increases, so increase the austerity, wisdom, and glory of a stead- fast sage who, with vanquished desires, meditates ^ Tahagaya, i. e. tathagata. P 2 2 12 AJsTARANGA sOtRA. on the supreme place of virtue \ though suffering pain 2. 2(5) The great vows which are called the place of peace, the great teachers, and the producers of dis- interestedness have, in all quarters of the earth, been proclaimed by the infinite 6^ina, the knowing one^ as light, illumining the three worlds, (repels) darkness. (6) The unbound one, living amongst the bound (i.e. householders), should lead the life of a mendicant ; unattached to women, he should speak with reverence. Not desiring this or the next world, the learned one is not measured by the qualities of love. (7) The dirt (of sins) formerly committed by a thus liberated mendicant who walks in wisdom (and restraint), who is constant, and bears pain, vanishes as the dirt covering silver (is removed) by fire. (8) He lives, forsooth, in accordance with wisdom (and restraint), and walks free from desire, and with conquered sensuality. As a snake casts off its old skin, so is the Brahma;za freed from the bed of pain. (9) As they call the great ocean a boundless flood of water, difficult to traverse with the arms (alone), so should the learned one know (and renounce) it (the sawsara) : that sage is called ' Maker of the end.' (10) Here amongst men bondage and deliverance have ^ Dhammapadaz^. - Vidu«ate, which I take to be the genitive of the present parti- ciple corresponding to vidunvata>^. The commentators divide the word into vidA «ate=vidvan nata^, which gives no sense. 3' Nati«a in the original. I would prefer to translate it gnsitn, the name of the clan to which Nataputta belonged. been declared ; he who, according to that doctrine (of the church), knows bondage and deliverance : that sage is called 'Maker of the end.' (ii) He for whom there is no bondage whatever in this world, and besides in the two (other continents, or heaven and hell), is indeed a (monk needing) no support and no standing place ; he has quitted the path of births. (12) End of the Sixteenth Lecture, called the Liberation, End of the Second Book. End of the AMrahga Sutra. THE ‹Previous chapterAcharanga Sutra 20Next chapterKalpa Sutra 1›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public-domain 1884 English translation