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prohibits indulgement in those activities which directly or indirectly result in net annihilation of Karmik bondage; on the contrary strongly advises & highly recommends to go for them briskly. In other words only those activities which obviously result in more bondage than dissociation (fr) have to be abstained from, provided that absolutely essential activities (like biological necessaries to sustain life and remove pains) amongst them are tolerable in the technical name of 'अर्थदण्ड' संधते साहु धम्मं च पाव धम्मं णिराकरे । [Sootrakritaanga I-11 (35)] Exert in good & abstain from bad.
On the basis of above discussion, it be added that Jain kriyavad has been refined throughly well and is a very fine exercise and a sophisticated doctrine. To comprehend it masterly and to preach it correctly is not an easy job and naturally its perfect practice demands a very high mental stage and spiritual calibre. As noted in the beginning, exposition of Kriyavad (i.e. Karmayog as per commentators) in Geeta has not been quite clear and meant differently to different people right from Arjuna to Shankaracarya, Tilak and others.. This led to a remark from earlier Jain theologists that" Bharat" (i.e. Mahabharat of which Geeta is a part) can be correctly understood by persons having right perception and enlightened faith. Therefore, to guard against misrepresentation, confusion & complications, the following note of caution has been added for those who want to explain this topic of (Jain) kriyavad
अत्ताण जो जाणति जो य लोगं, गइं च जो जाणइ णागइं च । जो सासयं जाण, असासयं च जाति च मरणं च जणोववावं ॥
अहोऽवि सत्ता विउट्टणं च, जो आसव जाणति संवरं च । दुक्खं जो जाणति निज्जरं च सो भासिउमरिहकिरियवादं ॥
One who knows self and this world, roamings and its cessation, what is permanent and what is transitory, birth death and life circle, tortures of hell below, influx and stoppage
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