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CANDRAVEDHYAKA PRAKĪRŅAKA : 33
77.
What is right knowledge is reflected in the knower's right conduct, The right conduct is the essence of canonical knowledge and the essence of canonical knowledge is to attain the ultimate reality. Know, ye ! thus.
78.
The learned, who have understood the essence of ultimate reality, who know about the bondage of and the freedom from the karma and knowing the nature of bondage and freedom, they can shed the karmic bonds bonded earlier.
79.
The right conduct follows the right knowledge and from the right knowledge alone one embraces renunciation and the coordination of both results in the purity of conduct.
80.
The right knowledge is enlightening, the penance is purifying and renunciation is restraining. In the Jaina philosophy the coordinated practice of these three has been said to be the path of liberation.
81.
What use is being very enchanting, beauteous and strong in this world ? Because in the whole world people lookup with regard to the learned one, who has the knowledge of scriptures, as they look at the Moon (meaning that they honour the learned).
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