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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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AKARANGA SÛTRA.
who reflects should say unto him who does not reflect: Consider it to be true. Thus the connection (i. e. the continuity of sins) is broken. (3)
Regard this as the course of the zealous one, who stands (in obedience to the spiritual guide). In this point do not show yourself a fool1!
As it would be unto thee, so it is with him whom thou intendest to kill. As it would be unto thee, so it is with him whom thou intendest to tyrannise over. As it would be unto thee, so it is with him whom thou intendest to torment. In the same way (it is with him) whom thou intendest to punish, and to drive away. The righteous man who lives up to these sentiments, does therefore neither kill nor cause others to kill (living beings). He should not intentionally cause the same punishment for himself2. (4)
The Self is the knower (or experiencer), and the knower is the Self. That through which one knows, is the Self. With regard to this (to know) it (the Self) is established3. Such is he who maintains the right doctrine of Self. This subject has truly been explained. Thus I say. (5)
SIXTH LESSON.
Some not instructed (in the true law) make (only a show) of good conduct; some, though instructed,
1 Fool, bâla; the scholiast explains bâla as Sâkya or Pârsvastha, an outsider, or a follower of Pârsva (?).
2 For the same pain he has caused to others in this life, he will suffer in the life hereafter.
3 This means that knowledge is a modification (parinâma) of the Self, and therefore one with it, but not as a quality or action of the Self different from it,
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