Jain Spirit 2002 10 No 12

Author(s): Jain Spirit UK
Publisher: UK Young Jains

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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills. Mahatma Gandhi
Thus devoid of a clear understanding of the nature of the objects of knowledge and incapable of abstaining from external influence and himself not attaining mental happiness, the ignorant person does not go along the path of peace.
He who commits crimes such as theft, while moving among the people, is troubled by anxiety and fear-“I may be arrested at any moment as a thief." But one who commits no such crime freely moves among the people without any such anxiety, because in his case no thought of arrest ever occurs.
The practise of Ahimsa (non-violence) is both an individual and a collective virtue. The principle of Ahimsa has great potential significance, because it is basic in concept and universal in its moral principles. Chitrabhanu
Just as gold, however much it is heated, never loses its intrinsic nature, so also the right knowing Self, however much it is burnt by the associated karmas, does not lose his intrinsic nature of pure knowledge.
When the material karmas pertaining to attachment, aversion and grosser emotions begin to operate, the empirical ego begins to have corresponding psychic states, which produce in their turn, fresh karmic bondage.
Listen to the True Path of the Jinas, with constant inner focus. With no desire for praise nor love for the pain of rebirth. Shrimad Rajchandra (1867-1957)
Of whatever psychic disposition, good or bad, the Self is produced he is certainly the substantive cause. That disposition becomes his karma or action and the Self enjoys the fruits thereof.
To err is human, to forgive divine. Alexander Pope
Thus devoid of a clear understanding of the nature of the objects of knowledge and incapable of abstaining from external influence and himself not attaining mental happiness, the ignorant person does not go along the path of peace.
From Samayasara, by Acharya Kundakunda: If one performs austerities (tapas) or observes vows (vratas) without fixed contemplation of the Supreme Self, the all-knowing call it childish austerity and childish vow.
Just as a person who takes wine (as medicine) without any special longing for it, does not get intoxicated, so also the enlightened Self, while he enjoys external objects without any special longing towards them, does not get bound.
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As an artisan peforms his work, but does not become identical with it, so also the Self produces karma but does not become identical with it.
One who experiences the fruits of karmas thinks that he has brought it about, again sows the seeds of karmic bondage and misery of eight different kinds.
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