Jinamanjari 1996 09 No 14

Author(s): Jinamanjari
Publisher: Canada Bramhi Jain Society Publication

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ekünatisso vayasā Subhadda, yam pabbajim kiskualānuesi
By twenty-nine I renounced the world, Subhadda - To seek kusala (good).
Again, we see the use of kusala in Dhp. 173ab:
yassa pāpaskatam kummam kusalena pithiyat so'mam lokam pabhāseti abbhā multo va candimā
Whoever by good deed covers the evil done,
He illumines the world like the moon freed from clouds.
Here, kusala indicates the stopping of karmic influx (caused by evil acts), which has the same meaning as sūmavika cāritru (checking influx and exhausting past kamma). The word kusala generally means 'karmically wholesome': all karmic volitions and associated consciousness accompanied by absence of greed (alobha), hate (adosa), and delusion (amoha), contain the seeds to happy destiny for they result in the causes of favorable karma. Thus, Buddhist kusala, is very similar to the Jaina samayika cūritru, as illustrated in the following passage of the Mūlācāra 23:
jividamarane lābhālābhe samjoyavippaoge ya bamdhurlsuhadukkhādīsu samadā samaivam nāma
Sāmayika is equanimity (of mind) in the midst of life and death, gain and loss, friends and foes, pleasure and pain.
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Similarly, Mūlācāra 523 and 524 seem different from Dhp. 173ab (see above):
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