08-01-2022, 10:25 AM
Gatha-12
In auspicious-cognition (aśubhopayoga) renders the soul wander in worldly existence (sansāra) for a very long time. The soul wanders as low-grade human being, plant or animal, and infernal being, and is subject to thousands of severe miseries.
Explanatory Note:
Auspicious-cognition (śubhopayoga) is a limb of conduct or dharma from the empirical (vyavahāra) point of view, but inauspicious-cognition (aśubhopayoga) is not conduct or
dharma from any point of view. The extroverted worldly soul engages in inauspicious-cognition (aśubhopayoga) in forms such as non-observance of vows (avrata), sense-indulgence (visaya) and passions (kasāya). As a result, it keeps on wandering in the world (sansāra) for a very long time.
Gatha-13
The souls engaged in pure-cognition (śuddhopayoga) enjoy supreme happiness engendered by the soul itself; this happiness is beyond the five senses – atīndriya – unparalleled, infinite, and imperishable.
Explanatory Note:
The Arhat and the Siddha enjoy supreme happiness produced out of the conduct-without-attachment (vītarāga cāritra), characterized by equanimity (sāmya). This happiness is extreme; even the lords of the celestial beings – Indra – never get to this kind of ineffable happiness. Produced by the soul itself, it is utterly independent. Not based on deliberation or
reckoning, it is independent of the five senses (as such, termed atīndriya) – touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing. No happiness in the three worlds can match the merit of this happiness; the worldly happiness, in comparison, is but misery. It is permanent
and without impediments. This happiness is the fruit of pure cognition (śuddhopayoga). Pure-cognition (śuddhopayoga) is thus worthy to be accepted and endured.
In auspicious-cognition (aśubhopayoga) renders the soul wander in worldly existence (sansāra) for a very long time. The soul wanders as low-grade human being, plant or animal, and infernal being, and is subject to thousands of severe miseries.
Explanatory Note:
Auspicious-cognition (śubhopayoga) is a limb of conduct or dharma from the empirical (vyavahāra) point of view, but inauspicious-cognition (aśubhopayoga) is not conduct or
dharma from any point of view. The extroverted worldly soul engages in inauspicious-cognition (aśubhopayoga) in forms such as non-observance of vows (avrata), sense-indulgence (visaya) and passions (kasāya). As a result, it keeps on wandering in the world (sansāra) for a very long time.
Gatha-13
The souls engaged in pure-cognition (śuddhopayoga) enjoy supreme happiness engendered by the soul itself; this happiness is beyond the five senses – atīndriya – unparalleled, infinite, and imperishable.
Explanatory Note:
The Arhat and the Siddha enjoy supreme happiness produced out of the conduct-without-attachment (vītarāga cāritra), characterized by equanimity (sāmya). This happiness is extreme; even the lords of the celestial beings – Indra – never get to this kind of ineffable happiness. Produced by the soul itself, it is utterly independent. Not based on deliberation or
reckoning, it is independent of the five senses (as such, termed atīndriya) – touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing. No happiness in the three worlds can match the merit of this happiness; the worldly happiness, in comparison, is but misery. It is permanent
and without impediments. This happiness is the fruit of pure cognition (śuddhopayoga). Pure-cognition (śuddhopayoga) is thus worthy to be accepted and endured.