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are interested and engrossed in non-religion, (vi) act irreligiously. (vii) and earn their livelihood by such acts, remain asleep, powerless and lazy; whereas for those persons, who are religious, followers of it, aspirers of it, propounders of it, interested and engrossed in it, actively religious and earn their livelihood by religious means, it is better to remain awake, powerful and active. Because by remaining so, they contribute towards the removal of pains, sorrows, sadness (distress), tears, troubles, unhappiness and sufferings etc. of many a being, engage themselves or others or both in various religious plans and programmes; by remaining religiously awake, they keep their selves always alert and by remaining active they keep themselves always engaged in serving preceptors, teachers, old senior and learned monks, austeres, sick, learners, groups, sects, sangh (church organisation) and co-religious people.
The Acharangasootra insists times out of number on intense efforts by the aspirants of Moksha (see I 78, 97, 111, 157, 173, 195, 155, 129) and so also Sootrakritaanga [See I, 2 (11, 38), 6 (9), 8 (11) 11 (35), 15 (22)] in Acharanga alone the hammer has fallen heavily 17 times directly plus many a time indirectly on pramad (see 1-33, 65, 85, 106, 107, 108, 109, 123, 152, 156, 197, 280, 281, 282, 321)
Inspite of that, some people take a purely technical stand and say that every activity means bondage and hence should be avoided. But surely it is a suicidal view, totally disregards the bright avenues open in this human life and closes all doors of spiritual progress entirely on theoritical grounds. These impractical people forget the more important principle that unless one makes efforts with full vigour, he cannot free himself from bondage. Undisputedly, there is no other way to Moksha except our own activity-others cannot carry us to that state. Neither Bhagvan Mahaveer could do anything in this respect for his first
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