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Bhagwan Mahavir 1
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unless we board a ship. And when on board a ship if we do not leave it we will never reach London. Therefore just as boarding a Ship and alighting from it are necessary to reach the place similarly to reach the city of salvation the acquisition of good karmas (shubha Asrava ) and their giving up are both necessary.
Take another example. A thorn has pricked our foot and broken in. In order to take it out another thorn must be used to prick in and to take it out and then the second one also is taken out. In the same way to root out evil actions the use of good actions is necessary and at a further stage of development it is equally right to give them up. Thus we cannot wholly discard them.
In this way the Asravas are of two kinds (i) the good (ii) and the evil.
Sanwara Tatva. ( Control) Just as the winding of the screw tight closes the supply of water from a tap, similarly to stop the incoming of karmas with Guptis, Samitis, ten Dharnias, Bhavanas, Penance Parishaha jaya (balanced endurance of troubles) etc. is called Sanwara Tatvs.
Nirjara Tatva. : Out of the karmas that bind the soul, the destruction of some is called Nirjara. The flow of the karmas is like the flow of the groat Ganges. Just as in the current of the Ganges every moment water is flowing in and out, in the same way incoming and outgoing of karmas is continually going on in the soul. Karmas leave the soul after the alloted space for their incoming and sticking with the soul is over. That is Nirjara. Sometimes some sages practising penance with a
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