Jain Spirit 2004 03 No 18

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

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MUM, DAD, WHY DO I NEED TO'GET STRESSED OUT DOING EXAMS! ?
TO SHOW EVERYBODY HOW CLEVER YOU ARE
(AH! So You CAN GET AN A GRADE IN PARENTING!
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Just as a monkey cannot remain still even for a single moment, Attachment binds the soul; detachment frees the soul. so also the mind cannot remain free from evil thoughts even for Samaya Sara 150 a single moment.
Just as fire quickly destroys an old, dry and hollow log of wood, Bhava Pahuda 84
so also an aspirant practicing right conduct quickly destroys the As the mind of man is unfathomable, it is difficult to apprehend it. accumulated karma. Rsibhasita 4.6
Acaranga Niryukti 234 Only when the mind is under control, can attachment and
Just as a bird flutters its wings and removes the dust by shaking aversion, which are the causes of worldly sufferings, be destroyed. itself, so the spiritual aspirant engrossed in austerities, annihilates Bhagavati Aradhana 138
the accumulated karmas of previous births.
Sutrakrtanga Sutra 1.2.1.15 All living beings owe their present form of existence to their own karmas. Unable to express the endless sufferings that they
Those thoughts, which purify the mind result in Nirjara undergo, they take various forms in the four-fold existences and annihilation of karmas). remain fearful of birth, old age and death.
Vyavahara-bhasya Pithika 6.190 Sutrakrtanga Sutra 1.2.3.18
An aspirant who has purified his soul by meditating on these Whenever a soul experiences this or that mental state, at that reflections is compared to a sailing ship. Just as a ship crosses an very time it gets bound by a corresponding auspicious or
ocean, so also the aspirant crosses the ocean of birth and death inauspicious karma.
and is released from all miseries. Upadesamala 24
Sutrakrtanga Sutra 1.15.5 Just as a person is free while climbing a tree but becomes
A person who is devoid of sublime thoughts can never accomplish powerless when he starts falling (due to carelessness). So also the perfection. soul is free while accumulating the karma, but is helpless when Bhava Pahuda 4 karma ripens.
The Jain faith stipulates that bondage and liberation depend on Brhatkalpa Bhasya 2989
the thought process of the soul Neither one's kith or kin, nor one's friends and relatives can share Bhava Pahuda 116 the burden of one's sorrow. One has to bear the sufferings all
Time is fleeting and the nights are ticking by. The worldly alone, because the karmas pursue the doer only.
pleasures are transient. Just as the birds abandon the tree when Uttaradhyayana Sutra 13.23
it becomes barren, so also the worldly temptations desert a person Let not your mind be vitiated.
who becomes incompetent. Sutrakrtanga Curni 1.2.2
Uttaradhyayana Sutra 13.31