732.‘‘Jātimaraṇasaṃsāraṃ, ye vajanti .Punappunaṃ, Itthabhāvaññathābhāvaṃ avijjāyeva sā gati.
Avijjā hayaṃ mahāmoho, yenidaṃ saṃsitaṃ ciraṃ,
Vijjāgatāva ye sattā nāgacchanti1- punabbhavan. – 3-12 Dvayatānupassanā suttaṃ -Khuddakanikāye, Suttanipāto. [BJT Page 228] [\x 228/]
What is called ‘life’ is the period between birth and death. What is called ‘saṁsāra’ is the alternation between birth and death. We have taken up as the topic of our sixth sermon on Dependent Arising two verses that highlight the connection between these two.
“Monks, whatever skillful contributory mental states there are, that are noble and effectively leading up to enlightenment, if there are any persons who question about the justifiable purpose of listening to them, they should be told:
“It is just for the purpose of knowing as it is the dualities in this Dhamma. And what would you call a duality? …….
“Monks, if there are any who put the question ‘Could there be another mode of contemplating correctly the duality?’ – they should be told: ‘There is’, and how?………
‘Jāti maraṇa saṁsāraṁ – ye vajanti punappunaṁ itthabhāvaññathābhāvaṁ – avijjāyeva sā gati’
“Those who keep wandering again and again in this saṁsāra which is an alternation between birth and death tantamount to a ‘thisness’ and ‘otherwiseness’, are involved in a journey which is merely a perpetuation of ignorance.”
‘avijjā hayaṁ mahāmoho – yenidaṁ saṁsitaṁ ciraṁ vijjāgatā ca ye sattā – nāgacchanti punabbhavam’
“Ignorance is the great delusion due to which one has wandered long in this saṁsāra. Those beings that are endowed with knowledge do not come back to repeated existence.”
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