Bhagvana Mahavira

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

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Philosophy and Exhortation
thorn (that cause pain).
(Bhagavati Aradhanā, 797)
16. Don't be proud if you gain. Nor be sorry if you lose. (Acaränga, 2/4/114, 115) 17. One who cultivates an attitude of equality towards all living beings, mobile and stationary, can attain equanimity. Thus do the kevalis say.
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(Anuyogadvāra, 708, gāthā 2) 18. Only the one who has transcended fear can experience. equanimity.
(Sütrakṛtānga, 1/2/2/17)
19. (One should reflect thus:) Let me treat all living beings with equanimity and none with enmity. Let me attain samādhi (tranquillity) by becoming free from expectations.
(Mülăcăra, 2/42)
20. Let me renounce the bondage of attachment and hatred, pride and meekness, curiosity, fear, sorrow, indulgence and abhorrence (in order to accomplish equanimity). (Mülācāra, 2/44) 21. Let me give up attachment through unattachment. My soul will be my only support (in this practice of unattachment). (Hence) let me give up everything else. (Mülācāra, 2/44)
22. Just as I do not like misery, so do others. Knowing this, one neither kills, nor geis killed. A śramana is sc called because he behaves equanimously.
(Anuyogadvāra, 708, gāthā 3
23. One who remains equanimous in the midst of pleasure: and pains is a śramaṇa, being in the state of pure cons ciousness.
(Pravacanasāra, 1/14
24. A framaṇa devoid of the knowledge of Agama doe