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N ot indulging in jokes, ever controlling oneself, not revealing the secrets of others, not lacking good manners, not exhibiting bad manners, not being very much greedy, not being angry and being committed to truthfulness; these are eight traits of character on account of which one is called a (true) lover of education.


Jainism quote 6145 |  Saman Suttam, 14/172 & 173  




A person acquires knowledge and concentration of mind by studying scriptures. He becomes firm in religion and helps others to acquire that firmness. Thus through the studies of scriptures he becomes absorbed in the contemplation of what is expounded therein.


Jainism quote 6146 |  Saman Suttam, 14/174  




A lamp lights hundreds of other lamps and yet remains lighted; so are the Acaryas who like a lamp enlighten others and continue to remain enlightened themselves.


Jainism quote 6147 |  Saman Suttam, 14/176  




K now for certain that the soul is the home of excellent virtues, the best among the substances and the highest reality among the realities


Jainism quote 6148 |  Saman Suttam, 15/177  




T he pure soul is free from activities of thought, speech and body. He is independent, infallible and fearless. He is also free from mineness, attachment and delusion.


Jainism quote 6149 |  Saman Suttam, 15/186  




T he pure soul is free from complexes, attachment, blemishes, desire, anger, pride, lust and all other kinds of defects.


Jainism quote 6150 |  Saman Suttam 15/187  




A fter knowing that the pure soul is different from everything else, is there any wise man who says “this is mine”?


Jainism quote 6151 |  Saman Suttam, 15/190  




T he path’ and the ‘result of (following) the path’ these two things have been proclaimed in the discipline preached by the Jinas. Really `right faith’ is the path and liberation is the result .


Jainism quote 6152 |  Saman Suttam, 16/192  




T he faith, the knowledge and the conduct together constitute the path of liberation; this is the path to be followed. The saints have said that if it is followed in the right way it will lead to liberation and otherwise it will lead to bondage.


Jainism quote 6153 |  Saman Suttam, 16/193  




I f a wise person ignorantly considers that by doing pure (i.e., religious) performance he will be free from sorrow then he is the follower of an alien view, i.e., wrong faith.


Jainism quote 6154 |  Saman Suttam, 16/194  




H e who aspires for merit, i.e. worldly well being, aspires for life in this mundane world; merit (punya) is capable of securing a pleasant state of existence; but it is cessation of merits (punya Karma) only that leads to liberation.


Jainism quote 6155 |  Saman Suttam, 16/199  




K now that an inauspicious Karma (results in) misery while an auspicious Karma in (worldly) happiness; but how can it be said that auspicious Karma results in happiness when it leads to mundane existence?


Jainism quote 6156 |  Saman Suttam, 16/200  




T herefore, do not develop attachment for or association with either of them. One loses one’s freedom by attachment to or association with what is evil.


Jainism quote 6157 |  Saman Suttam, 16/202  




T he men of merit (punyatma) after enjoying his divine status in heaven at the end of his life span will be born as a human being with ten types of worldly enjoyment.


Jainism quote 6158 |  Saman Suttam, 16/205  




A fter having experienced for the entire life incomparable enjoyments appropriate to human beings one attains the right-understanding that leads to emancipation on account of the religious performances undertaken by one in one’s earlier births. Having realized that four things (viz. human birth, listening to scriptures, having faith in scriptures, appropriate practical endeavour) are difficult to attain, one observes self-restraint and having annihilated one’s past karmans through penance, one becomes for ever a soul emancipated.


Jainism quote 6159 |  Saman Suttam, 16/206 & 207  




A fter listening to scriptures, a person comes to know what is good and what is sinful, having thus known through listening, one ought to perform what leads to welfare.


Jainism quote 6160 |  Saman Suttam, 19/245  




A gain, under the influence of his (scriptural) knowledge, he becomes firm in his faith, meditation, observance of vows and self-restraint, and lives a life of purity throughout his lifetime without any wavering.


Jainism quote 6161 |  Saman Suttam, 19/246  




A needle with a thread (in it) does not get lost even when it falls in a heap of rubbish, so a person endowed with scriptural knowledge does not lose his self, even if involved in transmigratory cycle .


Jainism quote 6162 |  Saman Suttam, 19/248  




T hose who have renounced the jewel of right faith will continue to wander in different states of mundane existence, as they are devoid of proper devotions to virtuous qualities, even though they may be knowing the various scriptures.


Jainism quote 6163 |  Saman Suttam, 19/249  




A person, who has in him even an iota of attachment, though he may be knowing all the scriptures, will not understand the nature of the soul, He who does not know the (nature of) soul, will not know the non-soul also. How can a person not knowing the soul and the non-soul, become a person having right faith?


Jainism quote 6164 |  Saman Suttam, 19/250 & 251  




A ccording to the teachings of Jina, knowledge is that which helps to understand the truth, controls the mind and purifies the soul.


Jainism quote 6165 |  Saman Suttam, 19/252  




O ne who knows soul as pure oneself attains a pure self. But who contemplates the soul as having impure nature becomes himself impure.


Jainism quote 6166 |  Saman Suttam, 19/256  




H e who knows the internal, knows the external and he who knows the external, knows the internal.


Jainism quote 6167 |  Saman Suttam, 19/257  




H e who knows the one (the self) knows everything else; he who knows all things, knows the one (the self).


Jainism quote 6168 |  Saman Suttam, 19/258  




J ust as one getting hold of a treasure consumes it in a gentlemanly fashion, similarly the wise man, getting hold of the treasure of knowledge, enjoys it ignoring all pleasure derived from anything else.


Jainism quote 6169 |  Saman Suttam, 19/261  



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