ISJS Jainism Study Notes E5 Vol 04

Author(s): International School for Jain Studies
Publisher: International School for Jain Studies

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A wicked person does not give up deep-rooted enmity, is quarrelsome, devoid of goodness and mercy and is of licentious nature.
A gentle person is not partial, is free from desire of any return of his actions, is equal to all and free from attachment, aversion and affection.
The body is said to be the boat, the soul is the boatman, and the mundane existence is the ocean. The great sects cross over it.
The man of calm disposition must die, so must one possessed of cowardly disposition; death, thus, being inevitable, it is preferable to die with calmness.
All ignorant persons undergo suffering. The confounded wander endlessly in mundane existence.
The bondage in brief is like this: Attachment binds detachment liberates.
The same bondage which an ignorant person gets rid of in million of years, is go rid of by an illuminated person in single breath by controlling his body mind and speech.
All words withdraw, all logic suspends, and all intelligence fails where there is no pain or pleasure, no torture, no obstacle, no death, no birth.... Such is the state of liberation.
The knowledge which grasps in proper way nature of things as they are is valid.
Those who shower praise on their own views and condemn the views of others, exhibit pedantry and wander in the transmigratory circle of mundane existence.
The whole approach of this philosophy and tradition is to overcome passions and have a balanced approach to life. The aphorisms of this text are simple and lucid in manner.
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