Jain Prayers

Author(s): Sima Sheth, Vastupal Parikh, Anne Vallely, Prakash Mody
Publisher: Prakash Mody

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Pearls of Jain Wisdom
The Soul
* The soul is the architect of one's happiness and sorrow. The soul on the right
path is one's own friend and a soul on the wrong path is one's enemy. The pure soul is free from the activities of mind, body and speech. It is conflictless, detached, formless, substratumless, dispassionate, blemishless, free from delusion and fear.
Knowledge
* Knowledge is that which helps to understand reality, controls the mind and
which enlightens the soul. * Without right faith there is no right knowledge; without right knowledge
there is no right conduct; without virtues, there is no annihilation of karmas
and without annihilation there is no liberation. * Just as a threaded needle does not get lost even when it falls on the ground,
so a person endowed with scared knowledge does not get lost in the worldly stay.
Conquest of Passions
* By conquering anger, the soul attains forgiveness.
The more you get, the more you want; greed increases with every gain. A work which could have been done with two grams of gold, is then not done even with millions of grams of gold. Anger, pride, deceit and greed- these four blemishes escalate sinful deeds. One who desires the welfare of his self should renounce these four evils. Anger spoils good relations, pride destroys modesty, deceit destroys amity and greed destroys everything.
Book of Jain Prayers