Tulsi Prajna 2008 04

Author(s): Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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Bhagyam Sutra 40
The Jinas have propounded the law of equality. Having heard? the law from the learned preceptor, the intelligent monk should properly cultivate the law of equality.
The aspirations and ambitions disappear in a person cultivating equality with respect to all creatures, with respect to gain and loss, pleasant and unpleasant situations. All virtues such as non-violence and the like are rooted in the virtue of equality.
Comprised by the virtue of equality are all the three types of equanimity, namely, equanimity due to faith in the truth, due to learning of the categories of truth a soul, non-soul, etc. æ and due to practice of the vows of non-violence etc.
5.41 jahettha mae samdhi jhosie, evamannattha samdhi dujjosie bhavati, tamhä bemi-ạo ņihejja vīriyam.
The manner in which I combinedly practised the trinity of knowledge, faith and conduct is difficult to find elsewhere, and therefore I enjoin that you should not conceal your capacity to practise the discipline. Bhagyam Sūtra 41
'Juncture' (samdhi) means the hole. It is identical with psychic centre in the body. Or, the trinity of knowledge, faith and conduct is the spiritual juncture. Lord Mahāvīra himself addresses the disciples thus: the juncture that I discovered and followed through great exertion in the discipline of non-absolutism, non-possessiveness and equality is difficult to discover and follow in other disciplines that are infected by absolutism and perverse possessiveness. Therefore do I say: one should not stifle or suppress the power of exertion. By treading the path infected with the perversity of possessiveness, one should not try to practise the aforesaid trinity and destroy his energy. On the other hand he should not conceal his energy in the practise of the trinity in the path endowed with nonpossessiveness and equality.
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