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THE LIFE
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death; he should have no longing for life. If trouble come, he should not seek to avoid or escape from it. * Suffering' is a part of his life; and he must not shirk it. He retains all the good practices he acquired in the householder's stage; and spends his time only in study and meditation and the enlightenment of the seekers after the truth. He is not allowed to eat more than once a day. Wine is forbidden to the Traveller on the Path in both stages of the journey.
Virtue and vice both lead to a continuance of the bondage and transmigration, though virtue leads to good conditions and vice to undesirable ones. The union of spirit and matter can only be prevented when the impulses-good ones as well as bad ones--are destroyed completely. This does not mean that the man who has transcended virtue will be a vicious one, or an evil-doer and a rogue. No, not at all; he will now do neither good nor evil to any one. Evil he gave up long ago in the householder's stage, and he cannot take to it again, without falling from his high position. He will retain that merit, and now acquire the additional one of ceasing to bring himself into contact with the outer nature even for the purpose of doing good to some one. The only good that he will now do to others is to enlighten them as regards the truth. When he attains nirvāṇa he will leave behind a memory and an example to inspire others, to escape from the clutches of death and disease
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| SR No. | 006709 |
| Book Title | Faith Knowledge and Conduct |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Champat Rai Jain |
| Publisher | Champat Rai Jain |
| Publication Year | 1929 |
| Total Pages | 126 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 4 MB |