| 7. Humility,
modesty, innocence, patience, uprightness, service of the teacher, purity,
stead Fastness, selfcontrol ; Humility: absence of selfesteem. Modesty:
not proclaiming ones own virtues. Innocence: doing no injury to any living
being. Patience: not being affected: when others. have done any injury.
Service of the teacher: doing acts of service to the preceptor (acharya)
who teaches the means of attaining moksha. Purity: washing away the dirt
from the body by means of water and earths, the inner purity of mind consisting
in the removal from it of the dirt of attachment and other passions by cultivating
the idea that is inimical to them. steadfastness: concentration of all efforts
exclusively in the path of salvation. Self control: control of the self,
of the aggregate of the body and the senses. This aggregate is spoken of
as the self, because it is of some service to the true Self. Selfcontrol
consists in directing exclusively to the right path the body and the mind
which are by nature attracted in all directions. Moreover,8. Absence of
attachment for objects of the senses, and also absence of egoism; perception
of evil in birth, death and old age, in sickness and pain ; . Absence of
attachment: for senseobjects such as sound, for pleasures seen or unseen.
Perception, etc.: thinking of what evil there is severally in birth, etc.
Thus the evil in birth lies in having to dwell in the womb and to issue
out through the uterus. Similarly in death. The evil of old age consists
in the decay of intelligence, power and strength, and in being treated with
contempt. So also may be seen the evil caused by sickness such as headdisease
or the evil caused by pain, whether adhyatmika, i.e·, arising in ones own
person, or adhibhautika, i.e produced by external agents, or adhidaivika,
i.e produced by supernatural beings. |
| 7. "Before telling you about
the essential nature of Kshetrajna, I will tell you the means by which that
can be realized or intuited. Amanitwa (humility), Adambhitwa (modesty),
Ahimsa (non-injury); Kshanti (patience); Aarjava (uprightness), Achara-
yopasana (service of the Guru), Shaucha (purity), Sthairya (steadfastness),
Aatmavinigraha (self control or mind-control), |
