Jainism the Creed for All Times

SR No.: 006564
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: D S Baya
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy
Publication Year: 2006
Total Pages: 420
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 20 MB

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encouraged the followers and exhorted them to be compassionate and charitable. They have variously said the one may not be compassionless, may never be unmerciful, may never be proud, may ever be charitable and always content with oneself.22
How Does Compassion Contribute Towards Spiritual Emancipation?
As already highlighted in the introductory paragraph, compassion is one of the five (subsidence, desire for liberation, aversion from mundane existence, compassion and unshakeable faith)23 indicators or signs of right-vision -- Samyaktva or Samyagdarśana. Anyone with right-vision must display the inner core quality of compassion. In other words we can say that a compassionate soul that is easily moved by the others' troubles and travails must be endowed with the quality of right-vision. Converse of this proposition is also evidently true: “anyone
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“Mā hoha niraņukampā ņa vañcayā kuņaha tāva santosam/ Māṇatthaddhā mā hoha ņikkimpā hoha dāņayarā ||”
- Kuvalayamālā, para 85. 1. “Uvasama samvego vi ya nivveo taha ya hoi aņukampā / Atthikkani ciya pañcavi havanti sanumattalingāim //"
- Pañcalingīprakaraṇani, 1. 2. "Praśamasani vegānukampāstikyābuhivyakti lakṣaṇam samyaktvami/"
- Dhavalā, 11 1,1,4. "Sanivego cia uvasama nivveo taha ya hoi aņukampā atthikkam cia ee sammatte lakkhaṇā pañca/"
- Vrhatkalpavrtti, 1.2. “Saniyaktvam kidrśam bhavati? Pañceti, pañcabhiḥ śamasamveganirvedanukampāstikyarīpairlaksaņaiḥ lingairlakṣitamupalaksitani bhavati/”
- Dharma Sangraha, Ch. 2. 5. “Sanivegaḥ praśamaḥ sthairyani asammūdhatvamasmayaḥ āstikyamanukampetijñeyā samyaktvabhāvanā /"
- Mahāpurāna, 29/97.
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