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auspicious karmic influx, but innumerable times such auspicious karmic influx and coming into being of its high intensity results from practicing of monastic renunciation, penance, austerity, right viewpoint, right knowledge and right conduct, which are all non-indulgent kind of practices.
When these non-indulgent practices reach their culmination on the destructional ladder, then the auspicious karma types like pleasurable feeling giving, high status giving and fame giving, etc also rise and when they reach their respective culminations one attains enlightenment in the form of Kevalajñāna (all revealing pure knowledge or omniscience). None has ever accomplished nor will anyone ever accomplish this supreme accomplishment in the absence of reaching this culmination of auspicious karma types. This attainment remains at the pinnacle of auspicious karma types right up to the moment of attaining nirvaņa or liberation, and does not reduce even a bit.
The positive activities like service, friendship, kindness, compassion, co-operation, helping, etc., are different forms of positive, prescriptive or practical non-violence. In the Jaina literature, mercy has been mentioned as the very foundation of the religion and compassion towards the living beings has been termed as mercy.' Religion is what liberates. That the practice of mercy liberates, is a well-established fact. So much so that at the conclusion of any Jaina monk or nun's discourse, the following couplet is always recited enmass -
“Dayā sukhānni beladi, dayā sukhāni khāna |
Ananta jīva mukti gayā, dayā taạo phala jāņa Il”
This couplet means that mercy is the creeper of pleasure, it is the mine of pleasure and infinite number of living beings have liberated due to the liberating effect of mercy. Thus, to oppose the practice of mercy is to oppose the pursuit of liberation and to oppose the practice of religion, is to take out the very roots of religion. To even consider, opposition and prohibition to mercy is to consider pitilessness and brutality as religion and it is to accept sin and irreligion as religion, which is nothing but false belief. Pitilessness has been said to be an
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