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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
BOOK I, LECTURE 5, LESSON 6.
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have no good conduct. Let that not be your case! That is the doctrine of the clever one. Adopting the (âkârya's) views, imitating his indifference (for the outer world), making him the guide and adviser (in all one's matters), sharing his abode, conquering (sinfulness), one sees the truth; unconquered one should be one's own master, having no reliance on anything (in the world). He who is great and withdraws his mind from the outer world, should learn the teaching (of the Tîrthakaras) through the teaching (of the âkârya); by his own innate knowledge, or through the instruction of the highest, or having heard it from others. A wise man should not break the commandment. Examining all (wrong) doctrines from all sides and in all respects, one should clearly understand (and reject) them. “Knowing the delight of this world?, circumspect and restrained, one should lead the life of an ascetic.' Desiring liberation 3, a hero should, through the sacred lore, ever be victorious. Thus I say. (1)
The current (of sin) 4 is said to come from above, from below, and from the sides; these have been declared to be the currents through which, look, there is sinfulness.
Examining the whirlpools, a man, versed in the sacred lore, should keep off from it.' Leaving the world to avert the current (of sin), such a great
i I.e. the Tîrthakaras.
I.e. self-control. % The original has nitthiya=nishthita.
* It is called the door of asrava. The three directions mentioned in the text, are the three divisions of the universe. Objects of desire in each induce men to sin. The original is a sloka, noticed as such by the scholiast. • Of worldly desires and their objects.
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