The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha: Or, Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy — John Shaqi
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The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha: Or, Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy
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Philosophy, Hindu; Philosophy, Indic
3. "A kind, salutary, and truthful speech is called the 'vow' of
_súnṛita_. That truthful speech is not truthful, which is unkind to
others and prejudicial.
4. "The not taking what is not given is declared to be the 'vow' of
_asteya_; the external life is a man's property, and, when it is
killed, it is killed by some one who seizes it.
5. "The 'vow' of _brahmacharyá_ (chastity) is eighteen-fold, viz., the
abandonment of all desires,[58] heavenly or earthly, in thought, word,
and deed, and whether by one's own action or by one's consent, or by
one's causing another to act.
6. "The 'vow' of _aparigraha_ is the renouncing of all delusive
interest in everything that exists not; since bewilderment of thought
may arise from a delusive interest even in the unreal.
7. "When carried out by the five states of mind in a fivefold order,
these great 'vows' of the world produce the eternal abode."
The full account of the five states of mind (_bhávaná_) has been given
in the following passage [of which we only quote one śloka]--
"Let him carry out the 'vow' of _súnṛita_ uninterruptedly by the
abstinence from laughter, greed, fear, and anger, and by the
deliberate avoidance of speech,"[59]--and so forth.
These three, right intuition, right knowledge, and right conduct, when
united, produce liberation, but not severally; just as, in the case of
an elixir, it is the knowledge of what it is, faith in its virtues,
and the actual application of the medicine,[60] united, which produce
the elixir's effect, but not severally.
Here we may say concisely that the _tattvas_ or predicaments are two,
_jíva_ and _ajíva_; the soul, _jíva_, is pure intelligence; the
non-soul, _ajíva_, is pure non-intelligence. Padmanandin has thus
said--
"The two highest predicaments are 'soul' and 'non-soul;'
'discrimination' is the power of discriminating these two, in one who
pursues what is to be pursued, and rejects what is to be rejected. The
affection, &c., of the agent are to be rejected; these are objects for
the non-discriminating; the supreme light [of knowledge] is alone to
be pursued, which is defined as _upayoga_."
_Upayoga_ [or "the true employment of the soul's activities"] takes
place when the vision of true knowledge recognises the manifestation
of the soul's innate nature; but as long as the soul, by the bond of
_pradeśa_ and the mutual interpenetration of form which it produces
[between the soul and the body], considers itself as identified with
its actions [and the body which they produce], knowledge should rather
be defined as "the cause of its recognising that it is other than
these."[61]
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