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(3) This continual cycle of births and deaths as man, as animal, as angel, as denizen of hell, although it has been going on for countless ages, is not yet ended; and therefore we should now make some efforts to free ourselves from them, with the suffering, old age, etc., which they entail (sansara).
(4) To think, “I enter this world by myself, I go out of it by myself, I have to do my own work of self-mora) improvement, and myself to suffer my own pains (ekatva).
(5) All the things of the world are separate from me, are not me, the body included, which is only by delusion called oneself (anyatva).
(6) The body is full of dirty things, and the soul is thus in contact with dirty things in embodied life (asuchitva).
(7) That it is the continual attraction (inflow) of new foreign matters due to delusion, want of self-control, carelessness, etc., which is the origination of our pains and miseries (asrava).
(8) That this continual infiow should be stopped by adopting the necessary means, such as controlling the senses and the mind, acquiring knowledge, and practising concentration.
(9) That means should be taken to remove or work out those unnatural foreign characteristics (unkindness, weakness, ignorance, misery, etc.) which are in us, that the observance of the rules of conduct becomes the cause of the removal of foreign energies, only when it is actuated by right knowledge and right conviction (nirjara). Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org
