Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 1

SR No.: 008001
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 650
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion
File Size: 15 MB

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10. He, who has no faith in any one sentence or syllable enjoined by the Scriptures, and has full faith in the rest, should be known as a false believer.
11. The birth of ascetics who are
possessed of imperfect knowledge (one not omniscient) takes place at the highest, upto aat&fafama-Sarvārtha-siddha Vimana,-the celestial car named Sarvartha Siddha. Their birth at the lowest, and the birth of a lay-man having perfect faith in religion, take place in Saudharma deva-loka.
12. The birth of an ascetic with a knowledge of the fourteen purvas, takes place upto ai Lantaka dèva-loka, and the birth of hermits, sannyāsis and Buddhistic monks etc, takes place in Vyantara dèva-loka. This limit set by the scriptures holds good in the case of those ascetics who are very keen about the observance of their sacred duties
13. A emfaza ft Samma ditthi jtvo, A soul having a right belief, acquires the age-limit of existence as a celestial being while observing the minor vows (of a lay-inan) or the five great vows (of a Sadhu) as well, while practising penance through ignorance or enduring hunger, thirst etc from compulsion, without any desire to put a stop to the fructification of Karma.
14. He, who practises deceitful tactics towards or censures Right Knowledge, the Perfected Souls, the religious preceptors or the Sadhus, is born as a lower kind of god performing meanest frightful obscene actions.
15. One who is busy with performing wedding investure with the nuptial cord and rites for welfare such as domestic ceremonies at birth, death etc, or one who is busy in stating to both, who asks or does not ask, omens and maintains himself on the Science of Augury (fore-telling of past and future events etc) or, one who is burdened with the pride of prosperity, enjoyment, and happiness, is reduced, actuated as he is by the practice of fascination by charms and incantations, to a state leading to
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