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Acharya Kundkund

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W hen the soul develops attachment, Karma binds; when it is without attachment, it becomes free from Karmas; know this to be in short the real description of the bondage of the soul.


quote 6035  |   Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 2/179 




T he soul, which is constituted of the manifestation of consciousness, conceives infatuation, attachment or aversion having obtained various objects of pleasure; so again it is bounds up with them (i.e., the passional states).


quote 6034  |   Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 2/175 




I t is pointed out that body, mind and speech are constituted of material substances; and the material substance, in turn, is a lump of atomic substances.


quote 6033  |   Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 2/161 




H e, who is steeped in sensual pleasures and passions, who is given to false scriptures, evil intentions and wicked words, and who is cruel and goes astray, has an inauspicious resultant of consciousness.


quote 6032  |   Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 2/158 




H e, who recognises the great Jinas, attends on Siddhas as well as saints and is compassionate towards living beings, has an auspicious resultant of consciousness.


quote 6031  |   Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 2/157 




I f the manifestation of consciousness is auspicious, the soul accumulates merit; in inauspicious, sin; in the absence of both there is no accumulation (of Karma) .


quote 6030  |   Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 2/156 




T he soul endowed with lifeessentials, bound by infatuatory and other Karmas, and enjoying the fruit of Karmas, is bound by other additional Karmas.


quote 6029  |   Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 2/148 




T he nature of the soul is development: this development is with reference to knowledge, Karma and the fruit; therefore, it should be understood that knowledge, Karma and the fruit constitute the soul.


quote 6028  |   Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 2/125 




T he great souled Sramana, who has put an end to his delusive vision, who is expert in scriptures and who has established himself in conduct free from attachment, is qualified as Dharma.


quote 6027  |   Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 1/92 




F alse perception of things, absence of kindness towards subhuman and human beings and indulging with objects of pleasure - these are the characteristics of delusion or infatuation.


quote 6026  |   Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 1/85 




H aving abandoned sinful activities and proceeding on the path of auspicious conduct, if one does not abandon delusion etc., he cannot realize the pure self.


quote 6025  |   Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 1/79 




H appiness derived through sense organs is dependent, amendable to disturbances, terminable, a cause of bondage and dangerous; and hence it is misery in disguise.


quote 6024  |   Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 1/76 




H e, who clearly understands the self as of the nature of the knower on the authority of the scriptural knowledge, is called a srutakevalin by the sages that enlighten the world.


quote 6023  |   Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 1/33 




T he omniscient lord neither accepts nor abandons, nor transforms the external objectivity; he sees all around, and knows everything completely.


quote 6022  |   Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 1/32 




I n fact, every entity is characterised by existence; and it is with regard to only one aspect that every object suffers origination and destruction.


quote 6021  |   Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 1/18 




T he self that has developed equanimity, if endowed with pure activities, attains heavenly happiness.


quote 6020  |   Acharya Kundkund
Pravachansara, 1/11 



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