समयसार (प्राकृत गाथा एवं हिन्दी-अंग्रेजी व्याख्या)

Preface
Scripture is not knowledge because scripture does not comprehend
anything. Therefore, knowledge is one thing and scripture another; this
has been proclaimed by the Omniscient Lord.
Out of my ignorance, I had not understood then that all karmic influxes,
virtuous and wicked, are other than the Self, impure, lead to bondage, and
misery. Due to my erroneous thought dispositions, I was constantly
involved in the adoption of karmic matter and, conditioned by karmic
matter like delusion, I was instrumental in attracting impurities
including nescience. To be able to grasp the essence of this profound
treatise, one must exert to see the Self as pure, free from bondage,
inseparable from the attributes of knowledge, faith etc., and distinct from
all alien substances.
Samayasāra for a purposeful life
Our wrong beliefs, passions and emotions are the causes which interfere
with the dawn of knowledge. One debilitating phenomenon in our lives,
almost universally, is that we live under the shadow of multitude of fear.
Take a look at the kinds of fear that we entertain:
Fear, perhaps, is the worst enemy of happiness; in extreme cases, it has
the license to kill. As the world is marching ahead, as the means of
communication are getting more potent than ever before, as the
individual is getting involved in more and more activities, the scope and
intensity of fear that we experience each day of our lives is increasing. Try
to figure out a day, after your childhood days, which you have been able to
spend without a tinge of fear tarnishing your natural happiness. There is
the fear of failure, theft, gun, terrorist, accident, earthquake, flood,
drought, tsunami, and so on. There is the fear of police, company law,
central excise, labour law, income tax and sales tax. Future itself has
become one big cause of fear – future health, security, relationships, old
age, and, ultimately, death – termed appropriately as the fear of the
unknown. We do not stop at thinking about possible mishaps till we are
alive; we also entertain the fear of surety of our kin after our death. Even
God has become an object of fear rather than of love and devotion. The list
is indicative, not exhaustive.
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