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Acharya Kundkund

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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.

quote 6254 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 2/9

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).

quote 6253 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 2/4

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’).

quote 6252 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 2/3

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

quote 6251 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 1/34

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

quote 6250 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 1/31

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

quote 6249 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 1/30

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).

quote 6248 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 1/27

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.

quote 6247 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 1/26

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

quote 6246 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 1/22

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.

quote 6245 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 1/16

F rom right faith comes right knowledge; right knowledge shows the padarthas or categories, (in their true light); having known the categories, (the soul) sees what is good for it and what is bad.

quote 6244 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 1/15

T hose who find fault with a person possessed of the virtues of piety, self-control, austerity, holiness (niyama) and communion are themselves ruined and will ruin others.

quote 6243 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 1/9

T hose who are without the gem of right faith may know all sorts of scripture, but being without realisation, they keep wandering about.

quote 6242 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 1/4

T hey are lost whose faith is lost. Nirvana is not for one devoid of faith. One having blemishes of conduct may attain perfection, but not one with blemishes of faith.

quote 6241 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 1/3

T he great Jinas preached to their disciples that faith is the root of religion. Having heard that with your own ears, do not bow to one without faith.

quote 6240 | Acharya Kundkund
Ashta Pahuda, 1/2

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

I f a monk of inferior merits, thinking (proudly) that he is a Sramana, expects reverence from one who is more merited, he wanders in worldly existence till infinity.

quote 6044 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 3/266

F urther, he, who has an atom of attachment towards body etc., cannot attain liberation, even if he knows all the scriptures. * Especially in ascetic life, moral discipline is said to consist in renunciation, in abstaining from activities (leading to sin, in refraining from sensual pleasures and in destroying the passions.

quote 6043 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 3/239

T he Sramana, who is lacking in the study of scriptures, does not know his self and the things other than his self; without knowing the objectivity how can the monk destroy the Karmas?

quote 6042 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 3/233

E ven the slightest thought about the body, on the part of him who aims at the negation of births, is considered as attachment; therefore the great Jinas have preached nonattention (towards the body).

quote 6041 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 3/224

A Sramana of careless conduct is called murderer of the six (classes of embodied beings); if he carefully practises (his course of conduct) , he is forever uncontaminated like the lotus on water.

quote 6040 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 3/218

A Sramana does not entertain attachment either for food or for fast, either for residence.

quote 6039 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 3/215

I do not belong to others, nor do others belong to me; there is nothing that is mine here; thus determined and conquering his senses, he adopts a form similar to that in which he is born (yatha-jatarupadharah).

quote 6038 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 3/204

H e, who has destroyed the knot of delusion, who has overthrown attachment and aversion and is indifferent to pleasure and pain in his condition of a Sramana, attains eternal happiness.

quote 6037 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 2/195

W hen the soul, under the influence of attachment or aversion develops itself into auspicious or inauspicious resultant of consciousness, the Karmic dust pours into it in the form of knowledge-obscuring etc.

quote 6036 | Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 2/187

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