Tulsi Prajna 2008 04

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

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The confirmation of this doctrine is available in the entire body of the ninth chapter.
5.42 je puvvutthai no pacchā-șivās. je puvvutthāi, pacchā-șivāl. je ņo puvvutthāī, ņo pacchä-nivãi.
There are people who exert themselves and do never slide back. There are others who exert but slide back. There are others who neither exert nor slide back. Bhagyam Sutra 42
All persons are not possessed of equal amount of energy on account of diversity in the transformations that they are susceptible of. Their diversity is exhibited here. There are people who are possessed of great energy and do not slide back after having manifested their energy and risen up. They follow the discipline for the whole life without break. There are again people of feeble energy, who rise up but fall down afterwards. They do not follow the discipline that they have adopted. There are again some people who have not the capacity to follow the law of non-violence. They neither rise up in the beginning nor fall down in the end. They live engaged in their household affairs for the whole life.
5.43 sevi tābrisae siyā, je pariņņāya logamaņussio.
Like the houscholder verily is the monk who slides back to worldly life after having renounced it before. Bhãẹyam Sutra 43
Even the monk resembles the householder, if, after having renounced the worldly life slides back to it. The monk has three characteristics: freedom from worldly ties, homelessness and depending on alms. The householder, on the contrary, has the three: incurring worldly bondage, domestic living and cooking food, all of which are due to possessiveness. Even the monk, if he has possessiveness, is susceptible of indulging in all these three activities of the householder. The like of demarcation between a monk and a householder is that the
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