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it acts unrighteously. An unconquered self is its own enemy, unconquered passions and sense organs of the self are its own enemy. oh! having conquered them I move righteously. In another Jaina text Āurapaccākkhāņam it is mentioned :
Ego me sasado appā nāņadarisanasanjuo Sesā me bahirā bhāvā, sawe samjogalakkhanā.
Tamhā samjogasambandhari sawabhāveņa vosire.
The soul endowed with knowledge and perception is alone permanently mine, all other objects are alien to it. All the serious miseries suffered by the self are born of the individual's sense of mine or attachment towards these alien objects.
First of all, Jainism maintains that the attachment (Rāga) and delusion (moha) obscure our spiritual nature and are responsible for our worldly existence and suffering. The most intense vāsanā is hşdaya granthi, which is a deep attachment towards sense-objects and worldly desires. The oldest name of Jaina sect is Niggantha-dhamma. The word Niggantha means the one who has unknotted his hrdayagranthi, i.e., the "mine-complex;" it means, in other words, one has eradicated ones attachment and passions. The word, "jaina", also conveys the same meaning; a true jaina is one who has conquered ones passions. According to Lord Mahāvira, "to reamin attached to sensuous objects is to remain in the whirl (Ācārānga, 1.1.5) The attachment towards sensous objects is the root of our worldly existence (Acārānga, 1.2.1.). Further, it is also mentioned in the Acārānga, "only he who knows the nature of the sensuous objects is possessed of self knowledge, scripture, Law (dhamma) and Truth (bambha)" (Ācārānga, 1.3.1). The five senses together with anger, pride, delusion and desire are difficult to be conquered, but when the self is conquered, all these are completely conquered (Uttarādhyayana, 9.36). Just as the female crane is produced from the egg and the egg from the crane, in the same way desire is produced by delusion and delusion by desire (Uttarādhyayana, 32.6). Attachment and hatred are the seeds of Karma, which have delusan as their source. Karma is the root of birth and death. This cycle of birth and death is the sole cause of misery. Misery is gone in the case of a man who has no
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