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undertaking meritorious pious or auspicious activities. Without gaining the right vision it is not possible to gain right knowledge and right conduct also and liberation is impossible in the absence of these three. Thus, punya is a direct and traditional cause in gaining spiritual liberation. (p. 183) If these activities had been considered as hindrances in achieving liberation in any way, the vows for abandoning them would have been prescribed and given by the religious leaders just as the vows for giving up sinful activities are prescribed and are being given. However, such vows are neither prescribed anywhere in the scriptures or their explanatory literature nor are they being given by any ācārya. The vows are taken for forsaking sinful activities and not the
pious activities. (p. 184) 14. Through charity one reduces attachment towards one's
possessions and greed passion becomes leaner. Mercy, kindness and compassion result in a feeling of friendship and pride melts. The feeling of affection and friendship can arise only when delusion or attachment and aversion are reduce. Anyone with strong delusive attachment will care only about oneself and one's relatives. He cannot feel others' pain or misery. He cannot be sensitive or sympathetic to such painfully miserable people or creatures. The feeling of affection just does not rise in such a
person. (p. 170) 15. The activity or the lack of it that results in sensory enjoyment or
passionate feelings is flawed, binding and causal to worldly transmigration and the activity or the lack of it that result in reductio. of carnal enjoyment or the feeling of passion, or it is subsided or destroyed, is useful because such an activity or the lack of it is the practice of karmic stoppage and separation that eventually results in spiritual emancipation and final deliverance
or liberation. (p. 172) 16. Charity is the practical aspect of generosity or magnanimity. The
Jaina scriptures are full of incidences that highlight the importance
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