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F urther, he, who has an atom of attachment towards body etc., cannot attain liberation, even if he knows all the scriptures. * Especially in ascetic life, moral discipline is said to consist in renunciation, in abstaining from activities (leading to sin, in refraining from sensual pleasures and in destroying the passions.

quote 6043 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 3/239

T he Sramana, who is lacking in the study of scriptures, does not know his self and the things other than his self; without knowing the objectivity how can the monk destroy the Karmas?

quote 6042 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 3/233

E ven the slightest thought about the body, on the part of him who aims at the negation of births, is considered as attachment; therefore the great Jinas have preached nonattention (towards the body).

quote 6041 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 3/224

A Sramana of careless conduct is called murderer of the six (classes of embodied beings); if he carefully practises (his course of conduct) , he is forever uncontaminated like the lotus on water.

quote 6040 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 3/218

A Sramana does not entertain attachment either for food or for fast, either for residence.

quote 6039 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 3/215

I do not belong to others, nor do others belong to me; there is nothing that is mine here; thus determined and conquering his senses, he adopts a form similar to that in which he is born (yatha-jatarupadharah).

quote 6038 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 3/204

H e, who has destroyed the knot of delusion, who has overthrown attachment and aversion and is indifferent to pleasure and pain in his condition of a Sramana, attains eternal happiness.

quote 6037 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 2/195

W hen the soul, under the influence of attachment or aversion develops itself into auspicious or inauspicious resultant of consciousness, the Karmic dust pours into it in the form of knowledge-obscuring etc.

quote 6036 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 2/187

W hen the soul develops attachment, Karma binds; when it is without attachment, it becomes free from Karmas; know this to be in short the real description of the bondage of the soul.

quote 6035 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 2/179

T he soul, which is constituted of the manifestation of consciousness, conceives infatuation, attachment or aversion having obtained various objects of pleasure; so again it is bounds up with them (i.e., the passional states).

quote 6034 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 2/175

I t is pointed out that body, mind and speech are constituted of material substances; and the material substance, in turn, is a lump of atomic substances.

quote 6033 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 2/161

H e, who is steeped in sensual pleasures and passions, who is given to false scriptures, evil intentions and wicked words, and who is cruel and goes astray, has an inauspicious resultant of consciousness.

quote 6032 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 2/158

H e, who recognises the great Jinas, attends on Siddhas as well as saints and is compassionate towards living beings, has an auspicious resultant of consciousness.

quote 6031 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 2/157

I f the manifestation of consciousness is auspicious, the soul accumulates merit; in inauspicious, sin; in the absence of both there is no accumulation (of Karma) .

quote 6030 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 2/156

T he soul endowed with lifeessentials, bound by infatuatory and other Karmas, and enjoying the fruit of Karmas, is bound by other additional Karmas.

quote 6029 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 2/148

T he nature of the soul is development: this development is with reference to knowledge, Karma and the fruit; therefore, it should be understood that knowledge, Karma and the fruit constitute the soul.

quote 6028 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 2/125

T he great souled Sramana, who has put an end to his delusive vision, who is expert in scriptures and who has established himself in conduct free from attachment, is qualified as Dharma.

quote 6027 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 1/92

F alse perception of things, absence of kindness towards subhuman and human beings and indulging with objects of pleasure - these are the characteristics of delusion or infatuation.

quote 6026 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 1/85

H aving abandoned sinful activities and proceeding on the path of auspicious conduct, if one does not abandon delusion etc., he cannot realize the pure self.

quote 6025 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 1/79

H appiness derived through sense organs is dependent, amendable to disturbances, terminable, a cause of bondage and dangerous; and hence it is misery in disguise.

quote 6024 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 1/76

H e, who clearly understands the self as of the nature of the knower on the authority of the scriptural knowledge, is called a srutakevalin by the sages that enlighten the world.

quote 6023 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 1/33

T he omniscient lord neither accepts nor abandons, nor transforms the external objectivity; he sees all around, and knows everything completely.

quote 6022 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 1/32

I n fact, every entity is characterised by existence; and it is with regard to only one aspect that every object suffers origination and destruction.

quote 6021 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 1/18

T he self that has developed equanimity, if endowed with pure activities, attains heavenly happiness.

quote 6020 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 1/11

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