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FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS*
SOURCES OF FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS
TRUTH 1: The soul exists in contamination with karmic matter and it longs to be purified.' TRUTH 2: 'Living beings differ due to the varying density and types of karmic matter.
TRUTH 3: The karmic bondage leads the soul through the states of existences (cycles).'
TRUTH 1: Jiva ity ... karma-sanyukatah.
(Pancaastikaaya-Saara) TRUTH 2: Naaraka-tiryan-manusyaa-devaa ity naamsanyutaah prakrtayah. (Pancaastikaaya-Saara) "karmaavarana maatraayaah, taaratamya-vibhedatah" TRUTH 3: Parinaamaat karma karmano bhavati gatisu gatih.
(Pancaastikaaya-Saara) TRUTH 4A: Mithyaadarsana-avirati-pramaadakasaaya-yogaah bandhahetavah.
(Tattvaartha-sutra) TRUTH 4B: .... Praanighaatena . . . saptamam narkam gatah .... Ahimsaayaah phalam sarvam, kimnyatah kaamdaiva sah.
(Yogasaastra)
TRUTH 4A: 'Karmic fusion is due to perverted views, non-restraint, carelessness, passions and activities.'
TRUTH 4B: "Violence to oneself and others results in the formation of the heaviest new karmic matter, whereas helping others towards moksha with positive non-violence results into the lightest new karmic matter.' TRUTH 4C: 'Austerity forms the karmic shield against new karmons as well as setting the decaying process in the old karmic matter.'
TRUTH 4C: Tapsaa nirjaraa ca.
(Tattvaartha-sutra)
*See Mardia K.V., (2002)
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