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O ne who knows good and evil avoids vice and also becomes virtuous. Reaping the fruit of virtue (in future birth), he eventually attains Nirvana.


Jainism quote 6245 |  Ashta Pahuda, 1/16  




A ct as far as you can and believe where you cannot; the all-knowing Jina has said belief is faith.


Jainism quote 6246 |  Ashta Pahuda, 1/22  




D o not venerate one who is without restraint, internal and external, (asanyat), nor one who is without clothing (but does not possess restraint): both these are alike (necessary). One (qualification) alone does not make a person a saint.


Jainism quote 6247 |  Ashta Pahuda, 1/26  




N o one worships the body, family, or case. Who worships a person without virtue? He is neither a holy recluse (Sramana) nor a pious layman (Saravaka).


Jainism quote 6248 |  Ashta Pahuda, 1/27  




K nowledge, faith, austerity and conduct constitute self-control. The combination of these four leads to emancipation, so it is revealed in Jaina scripture.


Jainism quote 6249 |  Ashta Pahuda, 1/30  




F or man knowledge is supreme; higher still stands faith; faith leads to conduct and conduct to Nirvana.


Jainism quote 6250 |  Ashta Pahuda, 1/31  




H aving attained (through previous births) the status of man with high lineage, develop faith and achieve everlasting bliss and emancipation.


Jainism quote 6251 |  Ashta Pahuda, 1/34  




O ne versed in the scripture destroys birth and rebirth. A needle without thread is lost but not one with thread (Sutra means ‘Scripture’ as well as ‘thread’).


Jainism quote 6252 |  Ashta Pahuda, 2/3  




A person with (faith in) scripture is never lost; he may even through self-realisation get rid of mundane existence, though he may be without vision (to begin with).


Jainism quote 6253 |  Ashta Pahuda, 2/4  




O ne who conducts himself in various deeds like a noble lion, and bears the weight (of responsibility) of a teacher, if devoid of restraint, falls into sin and becomes a nonbeliever.


Jainism quote 6254 |  Ashta Pahuda, 2/9  




T here are eight attributes of righteous faith, freedom from fear (or doubt), desirelessness, freedom from disgust or hatred (humility), vision free from superstition, covering up the defects (of others i.e. charity), steadying (one-self and others in right faith), selfless love and glorification (of right faith).


Jainism quote 6255 |  Ashta Pahuda, 3/7  




C onquer ignorance and superstition by pure faith, and infatuation with its paraphernalia by the religion of non-injury.


Jainism quote 6256 |  Ashta Pahuda, 3/15  




T o instruct good people, the great Jina has described knowledge and its true character, which is the self; know that well accordingly.


Jainism quote 6257 |  Ashta Pahuda, 3/38  




F aith, knowledge and conduct, learn these three with the greatest devotion. Knowing these, the yogis soon attain Nirvana.


Jainism quote 6258 |  Ashta Pahuda, 3/40  




T he man of knowledge, established in (right conduct does not desire non-self (to be associated) with the self. He soon attains bliss beyond comparison; know this for certain.


Jainism quote 6259 |  Ashta Pahuda, 3/43  




T hus has been briefly described right living in two parts corresponding to faith and conduct as reflected in the knowledge of Him, without attachment.


Jainism quote 6260 |  Ashta Pahuda, 3/44  




K nowledge attains the goal of the path of liberation, consisting of self control and fit for contemplation, therefore cultivate knowledge.


Jainism quote 6261 |  Ashta Pahuda, 4/20  




A s a man without a bow and without an arrow cannot hit the target accurately, so a man without knowledge does not see the goal of the path of liberation.


Jainism quote 6262 |  Ashta Pahuda, 4/21  




A man may have knowledge (as a natural gift); a good man endowed with reverence acquires it. With knowledge one sees the goal of the path of liberation.


Jainism quote 6263 |  Ashta Pahuda, 4/22  




W ith fruition of Karmas stopped, with forgiveness and control of senses, with a body unadorned and unoiled, free from pride, attachment and aversion, such is renunciation said to be.


Jainism quote 6264 |  Ashta Pahuda, 4/52  




G reat man, the milk you have sucked from the breast of various mothers in the endless cycle of births exceeded the water in the ocean.


Jainism quote 6265 |  Ashta Pahuda, 5/18  




O wing to sorrow at thy death, many different mothers have shed tears which exceeded the water in the ocean.


Jainism quote 6266 |  Ashta Pahuda, 5/19  




T hou hast swallowed all kinds of matter existing in the world without feeling appeased, even after eating again and again.


Jainism quote 6267 |  Ashta Pahuda, 5/22  




I n the endless sea of mundane existence there is no point of space or time, no form of matter or life, no mode or species and no age which the soul has not made its own and given up.


Jainism quote 6268 |  Ashta Pahuda, 5/35  




O ne free from hankering is really free, not one free from brothers etc. and friends; brave man, think thus and get rid of internal smelled.


Jainism quote 6269 |  Ashta Pahuda, 5/43  



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