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TEXTS: METAPHYSICS XV
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Avoidance of bad (asubhu) and activity in good, as regards thought and conduct, is from the practical point of view described by the Jina as the vows (i.e. the five vratas), the observances (i.e. the five samitis), and the restraints (i.e. the three guptis). But what is by the Jina mentioned as the checking of internal and external action with a view to destroying for the wise soul the cause of migratory existence, this is the highest, the
right conduct. 79. णिच्छ यण येण भणि दो तिहि तेहि समाहिदो हु जो अप्पा । ण कुणदि किंचि वि अ ण मुयदि सो मोकबमग्गो त्ति॥१६१॥
Panchāstikāya, 161. When the self, properly so named, being intently occupied with those three, does nothing other, and leaves nothing undone, that is the way of liberation (moksha).
