I t is not fault of knowledge that bad dull-witted men becoming proud of their learning are engrossed in sense - gratification. quote 6304 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 8/10 share
T he Enlightened ones have said there is no difference between virtue and knowledge; only, without virtue the temptation of the senses kills knowledge. quote 6303 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 8/2 share
I f a person who does not understand the self studies a lot of scripture and observes various rules of conduct, that study and conduct is childish. quote 6302 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 6/100 share
B elief in a religion of compassion, in a God free from 18 blemishes, and in a preceptor, free from possessions is right faith. quote 6301 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 6/90 share
E ven-mindedness towards blame and praise, suffering and happiness, foe and friend, is right conduct. quote 6300 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 6/72 share
B ecause attachment to nonself is the cause of mundane existence, therefore the yogi always contemplates the self. quote 6299 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 6/71 share
S o long as a man does not know the self, he indulges in sense gratification; the yogi, averse from sense gratification, knows the self. quote 6298 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 6/66 share
K nowledge without austerity is useless, so also is austerity without knowledge; therefore knowledge should be combined with austerity to attain Nirvana. quote 6297 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 6/59 share
T he saint who entertains feelings of attachment to pleasing objects other than self is an ignorant man; the man of knowledge is the reverse of this. quote 6296 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 6/54 share
R ight conduct is the religion of the self; religion is even mindedness, which means freedom attachment and aversion, the soul’s very nature. quote 6295 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 6/50 share
T he soul free from pride, deceit, anger and greed and of a spotless nature attains supreme bliss. quote 6294 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 6/45 share
W hat knows is knowledge, what sees is vision, renunciation of good as well as bad deeds is called (right) conduct. quote 6293 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 6/37 share
I t is good to attain heaven by vows and austerity, not torments of hell by their opposites. There is a great difference between sitting in the shade and sunshine as between observers of vows and their opposites. quote 6292 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 6/25 share
O ne who can walk a hundred yojanas in a day with a heavy load, can he not walk even half a kos on the earth with ease? quote 6291 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 6/21 share
T hose who, turning away from non-self, meditate upon the true self are men of right conduct; taking to the path of the great Jinas they attain Nirvana. quote 6290 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 6/19 share
F ree from the eight evil Karmas, incomparable, knowledge incarnate, everlasting, pure, - such a self, the Jina has said, is the true self. quote 6289 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 6/18 share
W hat is foreign to the true nature of the self, animate, inanimate, or a mixture of the two, is non-self; so has the omniscient truly said. quote 6288 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 6/17 share
A ttachment (to) non-self lowers one’s state of existence and (to) the true self verily better it; knowing this, be attached to the true self and averse from the other. quote 6287 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 6/16 share
A man devoted to spurious knowledge and entertaining false thoughts, when over-powered by delusion, even takes the body to be the self. quote 6286 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 6/11 share
(And) Looking upon other bodies, even if inanimate, as his own, appropriates and cherishes them with intense feeling. quote 6285 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 6/9 share
T hose free from attachment, pride, and conceit and endowed with a compassionate frame of mind cut through the pillar of sin with the sword of conduct. quote 6284 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 5/159 share
A s a lotus leaf is not wetted by water owing to its very nature, so a good man is not touched by passion and sense attraction owing to his mental attitude. quote 6283 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 5/154 share
E nergy, happiness, vision and knowledge, - these four attributes are manifested on the four destructive Karmas being destroyed, and the universe as well as the empty space beyond is illumined. quote 6282 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 5/150 share
B efore you are overpowered by old age, or the cell of your body is burnt by the fire of disease, or the senses impaired you, do what is good for the self. quote 6281 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 5/132 share
A s a burnt seed does not sprout on the Earth’s surface, so the burnt Karma seed of an ascetic of mental purity does not sprout into mundane existence. quote 6280 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 5/126 share