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THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE JAINAS.
Commentary. Carelessness in self-knowledge, association with various persons and wrong believers, bad company, attention to thoughts of perverse knowledge, and attachment to worldly pleasures, are the auxiliary causes by which error-feeding passions and wrong belief rise up for operation, and the right believer is turned into a wrong believer. Right belief should be strengthened by continuous study of pure literature, worship of the highest souls, practice of daily self-meditation and equanimity, by keeping company of good and pious persons, and by habit of temperance in eating and drinking and control of sense-desires.
पुरिसो जह कोवि इहं वित्तिणिमित्तं तु सेवदे रायं ।
तो सोवि देदि राया विविहे भोगे सुहप्पादे ॥ २३६ ॥ पुरुषो यथा कोपीह वृत्तिनिमित्तं तु सेवते राजानं । तत्सोऽपि ददाति राजा विविधान् भोगान् सुखोत्पादकान्॥२३६॥ एमेव जीवपुरिसो कम्मरयं सेवदे सुहणिमित्तं । तो सोवि कम्मरायो देदि सुहप्पादगे भोगे ॥ २४०॥ एवमेव जीवपुरुषः कर्मरजा सेवते सुखनिमित्तं । तत्सोपि कर्मराजा ददाति सुखोत्पादकान् भोगान् ॥ २४० ॥ जह पुण सो चेव णरो वित्तिणिमित्तं ण सेवदे रायं ।
तो सोण देदि राया विविहेसुहुप्पादगे भोगे ॥ २४१ ॥ यथा पुनः स एव नरो वृत्तिनिमित्तं न सेवते राजानं । तत्सोपि न ददाति राजा विविधान सुखोत्पादकान् भोगान्।।२४१॥
एमेव सम्मदिट्टी विसयत्तं सेवदे ण कम्मरयं । तो सो ण देदि कम्म विविहे भोगे सुहप्पादे ॥ २४२॥ एवमेव सम्यग्दृष्टिः विषयार्थ सेवते न कर्मरजः। तत्तन्न ददाति कर्म विविधान् भोगान् सुखोत्पादकान् ॥२४२॥
239-242. As man in this world serves a king for his livelihood, and the king gives him many kinds of things which give pleasure. Similarly the soul (as) man serves
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