Bhagvana Mahavira

SR No.: 006548
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tulsi Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1995
Total Pages: 108
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Story
File Size: 5 MB

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Philosophy and Exhortation
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50. Knowing that the earth with its crops of rice and barley,
with its gold and cattle, and all this put together will not satisfy one single man, one should practise penance.
(Uttarādhyayana, 9/49) 51. Just as fire is not quenched by the fuel and the ocean by
thousands of rivers, similarly no living being is satisficd even with all the wealth of all the three worlds.
(Bhagavati Ārādhanā, 1143) 52. Non-possessiveness controls the senses in the same way as
a hook controls the elephant. As a ditch is useful for the protection of a town, so is non-attachment for the control of the senses.
(Bhagavati Ārādhanā, 1168) 53 Greed even for a piece of straw, not to speak of precious
things, produces sin. A greedless person, even if he wears a crown, cannot commit sin.
(Bhagavati Ārādhanā, 1371) 54. One who, being swayed by wishful thinking, becomes a
victim of passions at every step, and does not ward off the desires, cannot practise asceticism.
(Daśavaikālika, 2/1) 55. External renunciation is meaningless if the soul remains fettered by internal shackles.
(Bhāva.pāhuda, 13) 56. Living beings have desires. Desires consist in pleasure and pain.
(Kārtikeyānuprekşå, 18/14) 57. One who is constantly careful in his deportment is like the lily in the pond, untarnished by mud.
(Pravacanasāra, 3/18) 58. Objects of the senses pollute knowledge if it is not protected by discipline.
(Sila-pähuda, 2)