T he self that has developed equanimity, if endowed with pure activities, attains heavenly happiness. quote 6380 | Acharya Kundkund Pravachansara, 1/11
H e, who is detached from all injurious actions, observes threefold control (of body, mind and speech) and restrains his senses, (is said to have) steadfast equanimity according to the preaching of the omniscient. quote 6379 | Acharya Kundkund Niyamsara, 9/125
F reedom of thought-activity from lust, pride, deceit, and greed, etc., is purity of thought (Bhavashuddhi). So has been preached to the deserving souls by the perceivers of universe and non-universe. quote 6378 | Acharya Kundkund Niyamsara, 7/112
H e, who avoiding the wrong path, firmly walks in the right path of the Conquerors (Jinas) is said to have repentance because he himself is the embodiment of repentance. quote 6377 | Acharya Kundkund Niyamsara, 5/86
I am neither anger, nor pride, nor deceit, nor greed. I am neither the doer, nor do I make others do, nor am I the approver of the doers. quote 6376 | Acharya Kundkund Niyamsara, 5/81
H e, who having renounced backbiting, ridiculing, talking ill of others, self-praising and harsh words, speaks what is good for himself as well as for others (is said) to have carefulness in speech (Bhasha Samiti). quote 6375 | Acharya Kundkund Niyamsara, 4/62
T he carrier of the load of (right) conduct, i.e., a saint, who having first formed the idea of being unconcerned with all worldly attachments, renounces them is said to observe the fifth vow of possessionlessness, (Parigraha Tyaga). quote 6374 | Acharya Kundkund Niyamsara, 4/60
H e, who having seen the beauty of a woman, is not moved by a desire for her; or whose thoughtactivity is free from sex-animate feeling (Maithuna Sanjna), (is said observe) the fourth vow (chastity), Brahmacharya. quote 6373 | Acharya Kundkund Niyamsara, 4/59
H e, who renounces the thoughtactivity of picking up articles belonging to another, lying in a village, a town or a forest, (is said) to observe the third vow (nonstealing), Achaurya. quote 6372 | Acharya Kundkund Niyamsara, 4/58
A saint, who renounces thoughtactivity leading to telling falsehood, on account of delusion, attachment and aversion is (said) to observe always the second vow, (truth), Satya. quote 6371 | Acharya Kundkund Niyamsara, 4/57
T hought-activity free from (all) undertakings (injurious to any of) the mundane souls (which are) known as existing in (any of the various) physiques, nuclei, soulclasses, soul-quests, etc., is the first vow (non-injury) Ahimsa. quote 6370 | Acharya Kundkund Niyamsara, 4/56
C ommon people, seeing someone looted, in the way, say, “the way is looted,” but no way whatsoever is (really) looted. quote 6369 | Acharya Kundkund Samaya Sara, 1/63
T he saints, the knowers of reality, call him a conqueror of delusion, who, having conquered delusion, realizes the soul (as) full of its own inherent knowledge. quote 6368 | Acharya Kundkund Samaya Sara, 1/37
I f that (soul) becomes mattersubstance, the other (i.e., matter) will gain soulness. Then (you) can say that this matter-substances (is) mine. quote 6367 | Acharya Kundkund Samaya Sara, 1/30
T hat the soul always (possesses) the characteristics of conscious attentiveness, is seen in the knowledge of the all - knowing. How can the soul be the matter, which thou says it is mine? quote 6366 | Acharya Kundkund Samaya Sara, 1/29
T he soul whose intellect is deluded by wrong knowledge and (which is) with many kinds of thought-activity, says of the matter-substance (whether it is) bound or not bound (with the soul), this is mine. quote 6365 | Acharya Kundkund Samaya Sara, 1/28
T hus the wrong-believer indulges in such perverse thought activity of soul. But a right-believer, knowing the real standpoint, does not so indulge. quote 6364 | Acharya Kundkund Samaya Sara, 1/27
I t was mine formerly, I (was) its in the past time. (It) will again be mine; I also will be it. quote 6363 | Acharya Kundkund Samaya Sara, 1/26
O ther foreign substance, living, non-living, or mixed is I, I am it. I am of them; and they are mine. quote 6362 | Acharya Kundkund Samaya Sara, 1/25
M editation verily must be performed in (right) belief, knowledge and conduct. But they all three (are) the soul, therefore perform meditation in the (pure) soul (itself). quote 6361 | Acharya Kundkund Samaya Sara, 1/11
T hose who have assimilated the essence of the Jina’s word, are indifferent to the senses, have the wealth of austerity, are calm and bathed in the water of virtue, attain the bliss of the abode of the perfect. quote 6309 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 8/38
R ealisation, knowledge, faith, austerity and energy burn the old Karmas associated with the self like fire helped by wind. quote 6308 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 8/34
P oison kills a living being only once in a lifetime, (but) one who succumbs to sense indulgence wanders about in the wilderness of mundane existence (so facing death many times). quote 6307 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 8/22
M ercy to living beings, subjugation of the senses, truth, honesty, chastity, contentment, right faith, knowledge and austerity [constitute] the family of virtue. quote 6306 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 8/19
O ne may lack all, may be ugly and past the prime of life; if virtuous in conduct, one’s life as a human being is praise-worthy. quote 6305 | Acharya Kundkund Ashta Pahuda, 8/18
