I f monks possessing more merits with regard to their asceticism, remain practising (their duties) with (or in the company of) those of inferior merits, they are victims of false faith and lose their conduct. quote 6045 | Acharya Kundkund Pravachansara, 3/267
T here’s no knowledge without right faith, No conduct is possible without knowledge, Without conduct, there’s no liberation, And without liberation, no deliverance. quote 6046 | Mahavira Uttaradhyayana, 27/30
E ndowed with conduct and discipline, Who practices control of self, Who throws out all his bondage, He attains the eternal place. quote 6047 | Mahavira Uttaradhyayana, 20/52
A ll unenlightened persons produce sufferings. Having become deluded, they produce and reproduce sufferings, in this endless world. quote 6048 | Mahavira Uttaradhyayana, 6/1
J ust as a threaded (sasutra) needle is secure from being lost, in the same way a person given to selfstudy (sasutra) cannot be lost. quote 6049 | Mahavira Uttaradhyayana, 29/59
O nly that science is a great and the best of all sciences, the study of which frees man from all kinds of miseries. quote 6050 | Mahavira Isibhasiya, 7/1
T hat with the help of which we can know the truth, control the restless mind, and purify the soul is called knowledge. quote 6051 | Mahavira Mulachara, 5/70
T hat which subdues passions, leads to beatitude and fosters friendliness is called knowledge. quote 6052 | Mahavira Mulachara, 5/71
T he unenlightened takes millions of lives to extirpate the effects of karma whereas a man possessing spiritual knowledge and discipline obliterates them in a single moment. quote 6053 | Mahavira Bhagavati Aradhana, 10
T he nights that have departed will never return. They are profitable for one who is given to dharma (righteousness). quote 6054 | Mahavira Uttaradhyayana, 14/25
T hose who are ignorant of the supreme purpose of life will never be able to attain nirvana (liberation) in spite of their observance of the vratas (vows) and niymas (rules) of religious conduct and practice of shila (celibacy) and tapas (penance). quote 6055 | Mahavira Samayasara, 153
M y soul characterised by knowledge and faith is alone eternal. All other phases of my existence to which I am attached are external occurrences that are transitory. quote 6056 | Mahavira Niyamsara, 99
J ust as you do not like misery, in the same way others also do not like it. Knowing this, you should do unto them what you want them to do unto you. quote 6058 | Mahavira Bhagavati Aradhana, 780
T o kill any living being amounts to killing oneself. Compassion to others is compassion to one’s own self. Therefore one should avoid violence like poison and thorn (that cause pain). quote 6059 | Mahavira Bhagavati Aradhana, 797
O ne who cultivates an attitude of equality towards all living beings, mobile and stationary, can attain equanimity. Thus do the kevalis say. quote 6061 | Mahavira Anuyogadvar, 708, gatha 2
O nly the one who has transcended fear can experience equanimity. quote 6062 | Mahavira Sutrakrtanga, 1/2/2/17
( One should reflect thus:) Let me treat all living beings with eqanimity and none with enmity. Let me attain samadhi (tranquility) by becoming free from expectations. quote 6063 | Mahavira Mulachara, 2/42
L et me give up attachment through unattachment. My soul will be my only support (in this practice of unattachment). (Hence) let me give up everything else. quote 6064 | Mahavira Mulachara, 2/44
J ust as I do not like misery, so do others. Knowing this, one neither kills, nor gets killed. A Sramana is so called because he behaves equanimously. quote 6065 | Mahavira Anuyogadvara, 708, gatha 3
O ne who remains equanimous in the midst of pleasures and pains is a sramana, being in the state of pure consciousness. quote 6066 | Mahavira Pravachansara, 1/14
O ne devoted whole-heartedly to knowledge, faith and right conduct equally accomplishes in full the task of the sramana. quote 6067 | Mahavira Pravachansara, 42