Jainism

Author(s): Herbert Warren
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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JAINISM
person to the extent that we feel we could never forgive him or be friendly the whole of our lifetime. That intensity of anger towards any person does not rise up; it is controlled by the mind. Not only anger, but also pride, deceit, and greed.
The following are five inward signs or characteristics of the right attitude of thought towards the universe in which we find ourselves:
(1) Not feeling the degree of anger, etc., just mentioned.
(2) A desire to reach the state of everlasting life, or liberation from mundane existence.
(3) The recognition that this continual going on from incarnation to incarnation is not the right state of life; looking upon any embodied state of existence as a misery and one to be got away from.
(4) Compassion towards those who are suffering from any kind of misery. If the misery is due to the ignorance and foolishness of the individual, then there is still pity for him that he should be thus ignorant. (It is the duty of society to lessen the extent of suffering which exists in it.)
(5) The conviction that that only is a true code of rules of life which has been taught by the omniscient, or persons in whom eighteen failings are absent. These eighteen failings are given later on (see pages 49-51).
DEITY, TEACHER, RULES OF CONDUCT
When we are in this state of right attitude then we have certain very definite convictions regarding three principles,
viz., the deity, the spiritual teacher, and rules of life.