Jain Center Minnesota MN 2007 07 Pratishtha

Author(s): Jain Center Minnesota USA
Publisher: USA Jain Center Minnesota

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Jina Sutra
There is no knowledge without right faith, No conduct is possible without knowledge, Without conduct, there is no liberation, And without liberation, no deliverance. Mahavira (Uttradhyayayana, Sutra, 27/30)
Endowed with conduct and discipline,
Who practice control of self, Who throws out all his bondage?
He attains eternal peace. Mahavira (Uttradhyayayana, Sutra, 20/52)
Just as a threaded (sasutra) needle is secure from being lost, In the same way a person given to self-study (sasutra) cannot be lost.
Mahavira (Uttradhyayayana, Sutra, 29/59)
Only that science is great and the best of all sciences, The study of which frees man from all kind of miseries.
Mahavira (Isibhasiya, 7/1)
That with the help of which we can know the truth, Control the restless mind, and purify the soul is called knowledge.
Mahavira (Mulachara, 5/70)
That which subdued passions, leads to beatitude and fosters friendliness is called knowledge.
Mahavira (Mulachara, 5/71)
The unenlightened takes millions of lives to extirpate the effect of karma, where a man possessing spiritual knowledge and discipline obliterate them in a single moment.
(Mahavira (Bhagavati Aradhana, 10)
The nights that have departed will never return. They have been wasted by those given to dharma (unrighteousness).
Mahavira (Uttradhyayana, 14/29)