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[Essential Sutra]
I strive for the worship of that only-perfect religion, and I am detached and withdrawn from opposition. I know non-restraint through *jñāparijñā* and abandon it through *pratyākhyānaparijñā*, and I accept restraint. I know non-chastity and abandon it, and I accept chastity. I know the *akalpya* (unrighteous) and abandon it, and I accept the *kritya* (righteous). I know ignorance and abandon it, and I accept knowledge. I know inaction-nihilism and abandon it, and I accept action-right-view. I know falsehood and abandon it, and I accept right-view-non-violence.
I know the unrighteous path of violence, etc., through *jñāparijñā* and abandon it through *pratyākhyānaparijñā*. I accept the righteous path of non-violence, etc.
I perform *pratikramaṇa* for the transgressions of the day, those I remember, those I recall, and those I do not recall, those I have already performed *pratikramaṇa* for and those I have not been able to perform *pratikramaṇa* for.
I am an ascetic, I am restrained, I am withdrawn from worldly affairs and the world, I am one who represses sinful actions, I am free from the root-cause of attachment, I am endowed with right-vision, I am one who avoids falsehood and untruth along with delusion.
I bow down to all the *sadhu* *muniraj* who are in the limited human realm of two and a half islands and two oceans, that is, in the fifteen *karmabhūmis*, who are adorned with *rajohaṛaṇa*, *guccak*, and *pātra*, and who uphold the five great vows, the eighteen thousand *śīlāṅga* - the limbs of good conduct, and who are renunciants who follow the path of non-transgression. I bow down to them with my mind and my head.
**Discussion:** Jainism primarily presents the ideal of avoiding sins. Therefore, it does not consider it sufficient to simply repent for past actions, but also instructs on taking precautions to ensure that sins are not committed again in the future.
Before making the vow, the great travelers of the path of restraint, from Ādinātha Śrī Ṛṣabha to Mahāvīra, the twenty-four *tīrthaṅkara* deities, have been saluted. Warriors remember warriors, and heroes remember heroes. This is a righteous war, therefore, only righteous heroes are remembered here. It has been an unwavering rule that the devotees of the practice and those who have attained perfection in that practice are remembered according to the practice one wishes to perform. Therefore, the remembrance of the twenty-four *tīrthaṅkara* of Jainism is what stabilizes our self-purification. The *tīrthaṅkara* are for us like...