Mohanlal Banthiya Smruti Granth

SR No.: 012059
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kewalchand Nahta, Satyaranjan Banerjee
Publisher: Jain Darshan Prakashan
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 410
Language: Hindi, English
Classification: Smruti_Granth & Articles
File Size: 19 MB

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स्व: मोहनलाल बांठिया स्मृति ग्रन्थ
the other shore, similarly like others in the past who have followed the fight ours path preached by Mahavira cross over the phenomenal existence.12
A pious monk who subdues his senses who cultivates forbearance and always asserts himself by leading a calm life by meditating on the teachings of Tirthankaras shall attain liberation.13 A wise monk who is devoid of pride and deceit whoever renounces all worldly vanities, whoever firmly controls and subdues their senses shall attain final liberation.14 Perfection is attained when one follows the rules of conduct, being free from greed, takes care of the Highest Good, while walking, sitting, lying down, in regard to food and drink, controls oneself and must be free from pride, wrath, deceit and greed. He should consider the Law to be the Highest Good and conducive to one's spiritual welfare, obeys one's preceptors, ceases from works and thereby gets free from the great flood of worldly existence. One attains liberation i.e., the Highest Good on comprehending the truth and lives up to it, seeks the Law, performs austerities seriously, possess self-control (Guptis), being skillful controls oneself for the benefit of the soul. 15 When one practises the thirteenth kind of action i.e., actions referring to religious life, one will put and end to all misery and thereby attains perfection. When an ascetic is free from anger, delights in the truth, being aware that one alone understands that liberation is real and the best thing.16
Those who aim at their spiritual welfare and totally abstain from the three-fold sins namely which are committed by one's own action, by the order of others and by giving one's assent to do sinful deeds, one attains perfection as in the
12. Ibid., P. 310.
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Ibid., P. P. 306,314. Ibid., P. 308.
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Ibid., P. P. 300-301. Ibid., P. 260.