Tulsi Prajna 2008 10

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

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preceptor advises! - you should not subject yourself to the pollution of your heart by the inclination to the wrong path, and disgust for the right one.
5.109 eyam kusalassa damsaņam.
That indeed is the doctrine of the Jina. Bhajyam Sutra 109
The exertion in the non-injunction and non-exertion in the injunction is not for one's liberation. This is the doctrine of the Jina (kusala).?
5.110 tadditthie tammuttie tappurakkāre tassanni tannivesane.
The monk should fix his faith in the injunction of the Lord, identify himself with it, accord supreme importance to it, merge himself in the memory of it and completely dedicate himself to it.
5.111 abhibhūya adakkhū, aṇabhibhūte pabhū nirālambaņayãe.
Lord Mahāvīra who destroyed the karmas, that destroy the innate qualities of the soul, perceived that the person who is not overpowered by the impediments is capable of being independent of any external object in the practice of the spiritual discipline. Bhaoyam Sutra 110,111
On the extirpation of the four destructive karmas, the Lord found that the person not subjugated by the favourable and infavourable hardships and troubles is capable of doing away with the objective supports, that is, he is competent to give up the objective supports. It is thus explained in the Uttarādhyayana (29.34):
O Lord! what does the soul produce by abandoning the commensality?'
"He gives up the objective supports by abandoning the commensality of the person without the objective support, the activities are undertaken for emancipation. He is contented with his own gain. He does not concern himself with the gain of others, he does not anticipatc, he does not covet, he does not hanker.
Without having any concern with a gain of others, and not
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