Bhagvana Mahavira

Author(s): Tulsi Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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PHILOSOPHY AND EXHORTATION
1. All unenlightened persons produce sufferings. Having
become deluded, they produce and reproduce sufferings, in this endless world.
(Uttaradhyayana, 6/1) 2. Just as a threaded (sasūtra) needle is secure from being
lost, in the same way a person given to self-study (sasūtra) cannot be lost.
(Uttarādhyayana, 29/59) 3. Only that science is a great and the best of all sciences, the study of which frees man from all kinds of miseries.
(Isibhásiya, 7/1) 4. That with the help of which we can know the truth,
control the restless mind, and purify the soul is called knowledge in the Jaina doctrine.
(Mülåcåra, 5/70) 5. That which subdues passions, leads to beatitude and
fosters friendliness is called koowledge in the Jaina doctrine.
(Mülācāra 5/71) 6. The unenlightened takes millions of lives to extirpate
the effects of karma whereas a man possessing spiritual knowledge and discipline obliterates them in a single. moment.
(Bhagavati Ārādhanā, 10) 7. The nights that have departed will never return. They
have been wasted by those given to adharma (unrighteousness).
(Uttaradhyayana, 14/25) 8. The nights that have departed will never return. They