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6. Better it is to go to heaven observing vows and austerity than to suffer acutely in hell by committing forbidden deeds. There is great difference, between one who stands in shade and the other standing in the sun.
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7. Knowledge, faith, conduct and austerity together constitute the pathway of liberation as told by the omniscients who possess the perfect knowledge.
-Mo. Pā. 25
8. He who has detached himself from sensual pleasures liberates himself soon from the worldly sojourn.
Ava. Ni. 177
9. Knowledge enables one to know the truth, austerity enables one to purify the soul and self-restraint enables one to give up the forbidden deeds. It is the declaration of Jina Dharma that the accomplishment of the above three in their entirety begets emancipation.
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Utta. Sū. 28.2
Ava. Ni. 103 10. A person who renounces the worldly pleasures, although he is capable of enjoying them, destroys the great heaps of karmas which ultimately yields the fruit of emancipation. Bha. Su. 7.149
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11. One who swims along with the current of the worldly life is entangled in the cycle of birth and death. One who swims against it, gets liberated.
Daśa. Cũ. 2.3
12. I have heard and experienced that bondage and liberation
are within your self.
Aca..Su. 1.5.2.36
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