Ishtopdesh-Gujarati (simplified iso15919 transliteration). Anuvadaknu vaktvya.

anuvādakanun vaktavya

shrī pūjyapādāchārya rachit ‘iṣhṭopadesh’ nāmano ā ādhyātmik grantha bhedagnān māṭe

ane ātmānubhav māṭe bahu upayogī hovāthī teno gujarātī anuvād āpanī āgaḷ rajū

karun chhun.

granthanā nāmanī sārthakatā

‘‘je vaḍe sukh paje vā duḥkh viṇase e kāryanun nām prayojan chhe. e prayojananī

jenāthī siddhi thāy te ja āpaṇun iṣhṭa chhe. have ā avasaramān amane vītarāg visheṣhagnānanun

hovun e ja prayojan chhe, kāraṇ enāthī nirākul satya sukhanī prāpti thāy chhe ane sarva

ākulatārup duḥkhano nāsh thāy chhe.(mokṣhamārga prakāshak gu. ā. pr̥u. 7)

paṇḍit daulatarāmajīe ‘chhahaḍhālā’mān kahyun chhe keḥ—

‘‘ātamako hit hai sukh, so sukh ākulatā vin kahie,

ākulatā shivamānhī na tāt, shivamag lāgyo chahie.’’ (3-1)

—ātmānun hit sukh chhe ane te ākuḷatā rahit chhe. mokṣhamān ākuḷatā nathī, tethī

mokṣhanā mārgamān-tenā upāyamān lāgyā rahevun joie.

mokṣha ane teno upāy-e āpaṇun iṣhṭa chhe. teno upadesh āchārye yathāvat ā

granthamān karyo chhe, tethī ā granthanun nām ‘iṣhṭopadesh’—e sarvathā yogya chhe.

granthanī upayogitā

āchārye ā granthanā shlok 51mān kahyun chhe keḥ-

‘‘pūrvokta prakāre ‘iṣhṭopadesh’nun samyak prakāre adhyayan karī, sārī rīte chintavan

karīne je bhavya dhīmān puruṣh ātmagnānanā baḷathī mān-apamānamān samatābhāv dhāraṇ karīne

tathā bāhya padārthomān viparīt abhiniveshano tyāg karīne nagar yā vanamān vidhipūrvak vase

chhe te upamārahit mukit-lakṣhmīne prāpta kare chhe.’’

granthanī visheṣhatā

ā nānakaḍo ādhyātmik grantha chhe, parantu temān āchārye gāgaramān sāgar bharī dīdho

chhe. temān bhedavignānapūrvak shuddhātmānī anubhūti kevī rīte thāy teno mārga-upāy chīndhyo chhe.

e tenī visheṣhatā chhe.

vaḷī ā granthamān nīchenī sārabhūt bābatono paṇ nirdesh karavāmān āvyo chheḥ-

1.upādān vastunī sahaj nijashakti chhe ane nimitta to sanyogarup kāraṇ chhe. kārya

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