Mahavira His Life and Teachings

Author(s): Bimla Charn Law
Publisher: Luzac and Co UK

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TEACHINGS
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circle of births), subject to birth, old age, and death.'1
The sinners cannot annihilate works by new works; the pious annihilate their works by abstention from works.''
Pleasant things are not produced from pleasant things.''
He who intends (to kill) a living being but does not do it by his body, and he who unknowingly kills one, both are affected by that through a slight contact (with it) only, but the demerit (in their case) is not fully developed.''
He who knows himself and the world ; who knows where (the creatures) go, and whence they will not return; who knows what is eternal and what is transient ; birth and death, and the future existences of men.'
"He who knows the tortures of beings below in hell) ; who knows the influx of sin and its stoppage , who knows misery and its annihilation, he is entitled to expound the kriyāvāda.'
The texts cited above suffice to indicate that the Jaina doctrine of nine terms (navatattva)
*Sūtrakļtānga, 1, 2. 3 18 , Jaina-Sūtras, II, P 260 2 Ibid , I, 12. 15
8 Implied in ibid., I, 3. 4.6. - Ihd., I, I 2, 25.
BIbid , I, 12, 20, 21.