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Jiva-realizes entirety, and completely, Its differerstbjäting attri: bute-Knowledge. The soul becomes emancipated, and goes to inbabit the region beyond universe. It is tht Nirvāņa-Life, absolute, and perfect, without troubles, and without sorrows, where Soul Is Pure Intelligence. It is ' says the Uttarădbyayana Sūtra in poetic terms in the Chapter XXIII already cited, " A place, sure yet difficult to attain, where there is neither old age nor death, neither pain nor sorrow. That is what is called Nirvăņaor the freedom from pain or Perfection. It is a sure pl&ce, peaceful, and happy, that the great sages have obtained Ic is an eternal place but difficult to arrive at. The sages who have reached there, are freed from griefs. They have put an end to the course of their existences."
True Conduct. The True Conduct-While the True Knowledge shows you the way to Deliverance, the True Conduct enables you to realize that state. The fain Morality or Ethics may be summa: rised in the five following vows :
1. Never to kill a Living Being-the famous principle of
A himsă. (Non-injury). 2. Not to tell a lie. 3. Not to take what has not been given. 4. To abstain from sexual relations. 5. To renounce everything, and consider nothing as one's
own property.
The practice of these five great vows is easy apparently ut as a matter of fact, it corresponds to an asceticism so severe that you will search in vain for its equivalent in any other religion.
The Jain mont swears as he is required by a solemn formula to observe these five vows He then becomes a member of the tommunity. A new condition of existence dates for him
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