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Book III The Conduct
NOTE: III.1, III.2, etc. denote Gatha (verse) No. 1, 2, etc. of Book III, while Gatha Nos. 201, 202, etc. at the end of translation denote consecutive numbering of gathas starting from Book 1, which tallies with the gatha numbering of the original Prakrit text given at the end of this edition and most editions of the work in Hindi.
Now begins the Supplement expository of the Conduct, containing an examination of conduct for others.
“With attainment of the substance comes attainment of the conduct; with attainment of the conduct, attainment of the substance”made aware of this, let others, who have not yet desisted from (sinful] action (karman), follow a conduct not repugnant to the substance. (PS Kalash 13)
In this way he stimulates others to observe the conduct, i.e. as described in gathas 201-203:
CONDUCT INCLUDING NEGLIENCE (VERSE 201-231) III.1. Thus having bowed before the Siddhas, the great Jinas, and the shramanas, one should take refuge in the state of shramana, if one wishes liberation from misery. (201)
Just as my own self, desirous of liberation from misery, in gathas 4 and 5 paid veneration, in the form of prostration and salutation, to the Arhats, Siddhas, Acharyas, Upadhyayas and Sadhus, and after this has for itself adopted the state of a shramana, which, consisting mainly in purifying intuition and knowledge, bears the name of equanimity (samya) and includes the state of well-being conceived in the two intervening (the first two books), books of our treatise, so the selves
| SR No. | 022313 |
| Book Title | Essence Of Jaina Scriptures |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Jagdish Prasad Jain |
| Publisher | Kaveri Books |
| Publication Year | 2014 |
| Total Pages | 508 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 38 MB |