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Jayanti - "Bhante! Is weakness or strength good for the living being"?
Mahavira "Strength is good for some, and weakness is good for others".
Jayanti "Bhante! How is to so"?
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Mahavira "Those who are sinful, and those who live on sin, it is good that they are weak. Their weakness makes them incapable to cause pain to others. But those who are pious, - for them it is good that they are strong. It is for this that I say that strength is good for some and weakness is good for others".
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Jayanti-Oh great monk, the very embodiment of piety! it good for the living beings to be excrtive or to be lethargic"?
Mahavira "For some, it is good to be exertive, while for others, it is good to be lethargic".
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Jayanti "Of thou the very embodiment of forgiveness how is it so"?
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Mahavira "Those who are impious, and those who move about performing sinful deeds, it is good that they are lethargic. But those who are pious, they should be energetic. For, in being energetic, a pious being is ever vigilant, and he is respectful of and serviceable to his preceptor, teacher, senior monks, other monks, segment (gana), order (Sangha) and breathren-in-faith".
"Bhante! By being a slave unto his organ of audition, what does a living being bind"?
Jayanati
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Mahavira
"Not a slave unto his organ of audition alone, but being a slave unto all his five organs of senses, he glides back and forth in the world".
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The devoted woman Jayanti was delighted to obtain solutions of all her difficulties from Mahavira. Having acquired the knowledge of Soul and Matter, she joined the order of Mahavira as a nun (13).
