Introduction to Jainsim

Author(s): Dewan Bahadur A B Lathe
Publisher: Jain Mitra Mandal

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JAINISM docs not make the ascetic dcfective. But no defense cight primary qualities is allowable in an ascetic.
An ascetic should come for his meal to the town from his lonely abode; he should try five houses and should lakchis meat in the first of them where lic may be willingly welcomed; if he is nowhere called in, he should return to his study and mediatation and only try in tlic same way for liis incals the next day. He should cat whatever is given without asking any thing clse. In summer, he should practise his penance on the top of a hill; in winter, by the side of a river, and in autumin, under a Irce.
We now come to the fourth part of our lecture the nature of meril and sin. Falsc bclics, killing, falschood, tiicft, debauchery, The theory of Pap unlimited luxury, covetousness, anger, pridc, and Panya fraud; lovc, biting behind one's back, idle.css, grossness, cating uncatables-all these are sims. Compassion, bencvolcncc, gentleness, charity, sclf-sacrifice, cclebacy, appreciation, sympathy, praise of gods, revcrcncc for the cachers, stud. iousness, modesty, philanthropy, scll-maintenance in a rightful way, pilgrimage. ctc. are prescribed to be micrits (virtucs]. There is 110 virtue in bathis for sacred rivers, ils Bralımins hold). The layman should bathic for cleanness and licului but llicre is no bearing of river-baths or scabaths on the virtues of a man. Tliero is no rcligious significance of the eclipscs or the cquinoxes. Tlicre
is no Shrull (the anniversary of dead forefathers) no Pakalt, no Wusore niothods giving of the Pinda 1o departed souls, 110 Mos. of Punya
ship of the cow, no worship of the Tulsi sliruis or thc Vad (TF) tree. We shall take up the fifili pirt nl llic lecture viz.--the nature of the binding or Korm.7.
This topic has been mostly deali vill in the recinci :af thic lectic. The soul is roving in worldly crisiense our to