Jainism

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

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JAINISM
RULE 30
He should always attempt to rise higher and higher, so far as concerns the above mentioned objects of life.
RULE 31
He should do or abstain from doing things that should be done or should not be done, respectively, at the time. He should stop doing a thing, if it should not be done at that time.
RULE 32
The layman should hear or read every day the rules of life, or scriptures. The idea is that the practice of these rules leads the person to the state of right conviction, right belief, etc., so that, if, after examining himself, he finds he has not attained the right attitude to be known by the previously mentioned internal signs, then he will know how to reach it, viz., by practising these rules.
RULE 33
The person who wishes to make spiritual progress, should give up obstinacy in all things.
Obstinacy, as here meant, is the doing of an immoral, wrong, or evil act, with the object of hurting, injuring, or defeating another. He should be yielding and not stubborn.
RULE 34
He should be partial to virtues. He should have all his energies directed towards the gaining of virtue.