Atmanandji Jainacharya Janmashatabdi Smarakgranth

SR No.: 012050
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: Atmanand Janma Shatabdi Smarak Trust
Publication Year: 1936
Total Pages: 1042
Language: Hindi, Gujarati, English
Classification: Smruti_Granth & Articles
File Size: 30 MB

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Teachings of Mahavira
truth are subject to pain. A person of pure faith always realises the truth. Those who have attachments for this world suffer. An ignorant man kills, tells lies, steals foreign goods, and is desirous of women and pleasures. The sinners go to the world of Asuras and to the dark place. They will be born in hell. Stupid sinners go to hell through their superstitious beliefs. One should not permit the killing of living beings. He should not commit sins in thoughts, words and acts. The pleasures are like a venomous snake. The pleasures are like the thorn that rankles, pleasures are poison. He who possesses virtuous conduct, who has practised the best self-control, who keeps from sinful influences and who has destroyed his Karma will obtain Mukti.
According to Mahāvīra, meditation means abstaining to meditate on painful and sinful things. One should with a collected mind engage in pure meditation on the law. He further points out that misery ceases on the absence of delusion, delusion ceases on the absence of desire, desire ceases on the absence of greed, and greed ceases on the absence of property. According to him there are eight kinds of karma. A wise should know the different subdivisions of karma and should exert himself to prevent and destroy them. (Uttara-dhyayana Sutra, Lectures 1 to 36.)
There are three ways of committing sins by one's own activity, by commission and by approval of the deed. By purity of heart one reaches Nirvana. Misery arises from weaker deeds. A wise man should abstain from overbearing behaviour. A very learned or a virtuous man or a Brahmana or an ascetic will be severely punished for his deed when he is given to actions of deceit. A sage should always vanquish his passions. He should expound the law correctly. He should not neglect even the smallest duty. A wise man should abandon worldliness. He who abstains from cold water, and who does not eat food out of the dish of a householder, possesses right conduct. Those who are not subdued by the wicked pleasures know meditation to be their duty. The virtuous men regard pleasures as equal to diseases. One should not kill living beings in the threefold way, being intent on his spiritual welfare and abstaining from sins. Nirvana consists in peace. Cruel sinners commit bad deeds and will sink into the dreadful hell which is full of dense darkness and great sufferings. Those who are wicked, kill beings for the sake of their own pleasures. Deceivers
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[Shree Atmaramji