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That is - The soul that is endowed with qualities like right vision, right knowledge, detachment and passion-control is a pious soul. Pasatthajogapaḍivanne ca nam aṇantaghāipajjave khavei || - Uttaradhyayana, 29.7. That is, The soul that is blessed with auspicious combination of body, mind and speech destroys infinite modes of destructive karmas.
There is, a general misconception, about Jainism, in the minds of the Jainas as well as those other than the Jainas that it is a religion that preaches renunciation and inactivity and that all activity is prohibited in it, because any activity results in karmic bondage and Jainism aims at spiritual emancipation and liberation through destruction and separation of karma from the soul. Therefore, this belief gained ground that activity is spiritually harmful and hence deplorable and only fit to be abandoned. By prevarication it is said that the main aim of Jainism is to gain spiritual liberation by making the soul absolutely flawless and pure. To make the soul flawless we have to renounce flaws. Therefore, all the vows in Jainism aim at renouncing all flaws and sins. Thus, all the texts of giving vows have texts concerning the renunciation of various flaws and various forms of violent activities. None of these renunciation-giving texts ever tell us to undertake any activity and thus, it was believed that Jainism is a faith that advocates avoidance of activity and undertaking inactive means of destroying spiritual flaws and that activity has no place in the Jaina scheme of things.
The second reason that is advanced for inactivity is that Jainism believes in liberation through the destruction of both the sinful as well as the meritorious karmic accumulation and that any activity will result in the bondage, of either pious or sinful karmic bondage, which is bound to hinder the gaining of liberation.
Thirdly, any activity is always beset with the possibility of indulging in some form of violence or the other, which is harmful for the spiritual aspirant.
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