Book Title: Jain Path or Path of Conqueror
Author(s): Kundkundacharya, Mathew Mckay
Publisher: Jain Sahitya Samiti Agra

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________________ ( 31: ) thought natures, that right believer should be known (to be) the self-preserver. 249. He who fixes his own soul when deviating in the wrong path of Liberation that right believer should be known (to be) with the power of steadfastness. 250. He who has love for these three (beliel, knowledge and conduct) right causes of the path of Liberation, that right believer should be known (to be) with feelings of love. 251. The soul who, mounted on the chariot of knowledge, destroyes the manoevres of the chariot like mind, that right believer should be known as the propagator of the knowledge of the Conquerors. CHAPTER VIII BONDAGE (BANDHA) 252, 253, 254, 255, 256. When a man besmeared with oil performs exercises with weapons in a very dusty place; and when he cuts and breaks palm, Tamala, plantain, bamboo and Ashoka trees, and destorys living and non-living things. To him (thus) causing destruction by means of many kinds of intruments. Think correctly, what is the reason of that man being besmeared with dost. Consider what reason there is for his being covered with dust, when he has been making such onslaughts by various weapons. It is the presence of oil which makes him coated with dust. Know, that this is certainly not caused by the (other) movements of his body, similarly, a wrong believer engaged in many kinds of activities, and having attachment etc, in his conscious attention, is smeared by the dust of Karmas.

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