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पञ्चानां पापानां हिंसादीनां मनोवचः कायैः । कृतकारितानुमोदैस्त्यागस्तु महाव्रतं महताम् ॥ ७२ ॥
Verse 72
सामान्यार्थ - हिंसा आदिक पाँच पापों का मन, वचन, काय से तथा कृत, कारित, अनुमोदना से त्याग करना प्रमत्तविरत आदि गुणस्थानवर्ती महापुरुषों का महाव्रत होता है।
Abstaining from the commitment of five kinds of sins (injury, falsehood, stealing, unchastity, and attachment) by way of doing these by oneself, causing these to be done, and approval when done by others, through the three kinds of activity (of body, speech, and thought), constitutes the great vows (mahāvrata) of celebrated ascetics.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Fourteen stages of spiritual development (guṇasthāna)
The Three Jewels (ratnatraya) of right faith, right knowledge, and right conduct, together, constitute the path to liberation. Belief in the nine substances as these are is right faith. Knowledge of these substances without doubt, delusion or misapprehension is right knowledge. Being free from delusion and passions is right conduct. Omniscience is attained on the destruction of the deluding, the knowledge-obscuring, the perception-obscuring and the obstructive karmas. As long as the deluding karmas are very powerful, spiritual progress is very slow, if not impossible. How are the deluding karmas destroyed? The potential soul becomes a right believer and with growing purity of thought activity, starts its journey of spiritual progress.
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