Tulsi Prajna 2008 10

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

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by the Jina. Third is hearing from one who is endowed with extrasensory knowledge.
For elaborate explanation see 1.1-4. 5.115 niddesam ņātivattejjā mehāvī.
The intelligent monk should not break the commandment. Bhāoyam Sūtra 115
An intelligent person does not transgress the instruction of the Jina by rightly understanding one's own doctrine.
5.116 supdilehiya avvato savvayāe sammameva samabhijjāniyā.
Examining all doctrines from all sides and in all respects, one should practice the truth alone. Bhagyam Sūtra 116
One should not transgress the injunction, after having properly investigated the doctrine of the Jina through anyone of the three sources of knowledge, namely, one's own memory of past life and the like. He should follow the injunction, after having properly understood it completely with reference to substance, space, time and modes through external and internal evidence. 5.117 ihārāmam parinnāya, allīņa-gutto parivvae.
șitthiyatrhī vīre, āgameņa sadā parakkamejāsi tti hemi.. Comprehending the state of self-absorption and being selfengrossed and self-controlled he should lead the life of a monk. Such successful and heroic monk should always exert himself according to the spiritual commandment--thus do I say. Bhagyam Sūtra 117
'He should comprehend the nature of self-absorption. The meaning of the self-absorption is the practice of penance, discipline and selfrestraint, renunciation and conquering of hardships and troubles. Knowing such self-absorption through comprehensive knowledge and abandoning the non-absorption through renunciative knowledge, the monk should deeply be engrossed in the self and conquer the senses. Such monk
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