Atmanandji Jainacharya Janmashatabdi Smarakgranth

Author(s): Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: Atmanand Janma Shatabdi Smarak Trust

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Dr. Bimala Churn Law
practise deceits in order to procure themselves pleasure and amusement. Sinful undertakings will at the end bring miseries. Sinners acquire karma arising from passion and commit many sins. The virtuous exert themselves for liberation. A pious man should eat little, drink little, and talk little. He should also exert himself being calm, indifferent and free from greed. The sinners are destined to suffer great violent, painful and intolerable agonies in hells. Wise men teach the true law.
According to the Acharanga Sutra a wise man should not act sinfully towards earth, nor allow others to act so. He should not act sinfully towards animals, nor allow others to do so. He should not act sinfully towards the aggregate of six kinds of life. He should neither himself commit violence by various acts, nor order others to commit violence by such acts, nor consent. to the violence done by somebody else. He should adopt the true faith and stand in the right place. A hero does not tolerate discontent and lust. He is not attacted to the objects of the senses and not careless. A wise man who knows the world and has cast off the idea of the world should prudently do away with the destructions to righteousness. A liberated man conquers wrath, pride, deceit, greed and passion. He should avoid wrath, pride, deceit, greed, love, hate, delusion, conception, birth, death, hell, animal existence and pain. A man who exerts himself and is of a steady mind without attachment, unmoved by passion and having no worldly desires, should lead the life of an ascetic.
The Jains who do not believe in a supreme God declare that Karma accumulates energy and automatically works it off without any outside intervention. Karma is latent in all actions. When the soul by means of austerities and good actions has got rid of agnana or ignorance, it attains omniscience. The Jains divide Karma according to its nature, duration, essence and content. Karma is intimately bound up with the soul. The Jains believe that once an Atma has attained the highest state, it is absolutely indifferent to what is taking place on earth and will never again undergo re-birth. They think of Moksha as a bare place of inaction reached by those who through suffering and austerity, have completely killed all their individuality and character and have finally snapped the fetters of re-birth.
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