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Delusive State of Human Beings The Parable of Honey-drops (Madhu Bindu).
(Miniature 18 century, Leeds Collection; for details see the article of Mardia 2001 in Jain Spirit.)
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FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS*
TRUTH 1: "The soul exists in contamination with karmic matter and it longs to be purified.'
TRUTH 2: 'Living beings differ due to the varying density and types of karmic matter."
TRUTH 3: "The karmic bondage leads the soul through the states of existences (cycles).'
TRUTH 4A: 'Karmic fusion is due to perverted views, nonrestraint, carelessness, passions and activities.!
TRUTH 4B: "Violence to oneself and others results in the formation of the heaviest new karmic matter, whereas helping others towards moksha with positive non-violence results into the lightest new karmic matter."
TRUTH 4C: 'Austerity forms the karmic shield against new karmons as well as setting the decaying process in the old karmic matter.
*See Mardia (1990, 2016)
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