Samayasara

SR No.: 001620
Original Sutra Author: Kundkundacharya
Author: J L Jaini
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1930
Total Pages: 234
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, Canon, & Discourse
File Size: 15 MB

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SAMAYASARA.
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8. He should propagate Jainism by delivering lectures, writing books, converting others to the true faith, spreading the glory o Jainism by acts of charity, worship, austerities, etc., removing the ignorance of the people, and helping them in following Truth.
From the real point of of view, the author has explained these eight qualities in the above Gathas. When a right believer is fearless, and convinced of his own undisturbable pure nature, free from desire, and disgust, fully aware of his own self, bent upon self preservation, steadfast in true belief and knowledge of the self, a deep lover of self-absorption and Liberation, and a propagator of his own self by deep self-concentration, he is said to possess the eight qualifications from the real point of view.
The force which right belief, right knowledge and non-attachment generates becomes the cause of a large and premature shedding of Karmas His pursuit of self-absorption results in shedding by thought (Bhava Nir-jara) from which results Karmic shedding (Dravya Nir-jara.)
CHAPTER VIII.
___Bondage (Bandha). जह णाम कोवि पुरिसोणेहभत्तोदु रेगुवहुलम्मि । ठाणम्मि ठाइदूणय करेदि सत्थेहि वाया ॥ २५२ ॥ यथा नाम कोऽपि पुरुषः स्नेहाभ्यक्तस्तु रेणुबहुले । स्थाने स्थित्वा करोति शस्त्रैायामम् ॥ २५२ ॥ छिंददि भिंददि य तहा तालीतलकदलिवंसपिडीओ। सचित्ताचित्ताणं करेदि दवाणमुवघादं ॥ २५३॥ छिनत्ति भिनत्ति च तथा तालीतलकदलीवंशपिडी। सचित्ताचित्तानां करोति द्रव्याणामुपघातं ॥ २५३ ॥ उवघादं कुव्वंतस्त तस्त णाणाविहेहि करणेहिं । णिच्छयदो चिंतिज्जद किं पञ्चयगोदु तस्त रयवंधो॥२५४॥ उपघातं कुर्वतस्तस्य नानाविधैः करणैः। निश्चयतश्चित्यतां किं प्रत्ययकस्तु तस्य रजोबंधः॥ २५४ ॥