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have instructed us on judicious Uberation from misery.
ANNOTATION 171. In common language, the experience which one does not like is referred to as sufferings. In the language of religion, the cause of sufferings is also called suffering. The bondage of kar mas is the cause of sufferings. Bhagavān Mahāvira admonished the people thus -
There is bondage and there is cause of bondage. There is liberation and there is cause of liberation.
१७२. इति कम्म परिण्णाय सव्वसो। 172. Iti kamma parinnāya savvaso. 172. (In order to emancipate himself from sufferings) one
should discernfully get rid of ( i. e, comprehend and forswear) kar mas.
१७३. जे अणण्णदंसी, से अणण्णारामे,
जे अणण्णारामे, से अणण्णदंसी। 173. Je anannadamsi, se añannārāme,
Je anannārāme, se añannadaṁsi. 173. He who looks inwardly at the Self revels in the Self;
One who revels in the Self looks inwardly at the Self.
ANNOTATION 173. The fundamental mainstay of Bhagavān Mahāvira's asceticism is apra māda ( i. e, complete lack of inertia, or constant vigilance). The first principle of this is close introspection.
The Bhagavan said, "Perceive, the Self through the Self."1 Not being an extrovert implies being an introvert. Hence, the aphorism. Thus the processes of introspection and revelry in the Self continue to follow each other.
Passions (e.g. the Id-impulses, indignation, conceit, deceit and avidity) are not the properties of the soul; and, therefore, a true introvert does not delight in them. 1. Dasaveyāliyar Cülikā, 2/11.
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