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CANDRAVEDHYAKA PRAKĪRŅAKA : 35
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It is the Moon's policy to give moonlight and so is the policy of the learned having the scriptural knowledge to preach such tenets of the Jina's faith, hearing which the people safely cross the worldly jungle. As a threaded needle is not lost on falling into a garbage heap, so a person with the knowledge of the canons does not get lost in the worldly maze. As an unthreaded needle is lost for not seeing the thread, so does an ignorant being without scriptural knowledge in the worldly maze, by falling prey to false belief. One, who has known the ultimate reality and who is endowed with the virtues of penance, renunciation, etc., attains the ultimate destiny i.e. emancipation, when the body perishes. As a skilled doctor knows the treatment for disease thriugh his knowledge of books on medicine, so a learned being knows about the purity of conduct through his knowledge of canonical texts. As a doctor without the knowledge of books on medicine does not know the treatment for disease, so does a being without the knowledge of scriptures not know the purity of conduct. Therefore, a person desirous of spiritual salvation, ought to strive to gain thr right knowledge preached by the Tīrthankaras.
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vijjo je. kş. ke. 11 2 yāņei kş. kāpā. ke. I jāņei kāpā. 11 3 nijjoo je. 11 mukkhāo je. kșa. ca. ke. 11
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