Acharya Tulsi
 | Chapter 9 | Philosophy And Exhortation |
1.
All unenlightened persons produce sufferings. Having become deluded, they produce and reproduce sufferings, in this endless world.
(Uttaradhyayana, 6/1)
2.
Just as a threaded (sasutra) needle is secure from being lost, in the same way a person given to self-study (sasutra) cannot be lost.
(Uttaradhyayana, 29/59)
3.
Only that science is a great and the best of all sciences, the study of which frees man from all kinds of miseries.
(Isibhasiya, 7/1)
4.
That with the help of which we can know the truth, control the restless mind, and purify the soul is called knowledge in the Jaina doctrine.
(Mulacara, 5/70)
5.
That which subdues passions, leads to beatitude and fosters friendliness is called knowledge in the Jaina doctrine.
(Mulacara, 5/71)
6.
The unenlightened takes millions of lives to extirpate the effects of karma whereas a man possessing spiritual knowledge and discipline obliterates them in a single moment.
(Bhagavati Aradhana, 10)
7.
The nights that have departed will never return. They have been wasted by those given toadharma (unrighteousness) (Uttaradhyayana, 14/25)
8.
The nights that have departed will never return. They are profitable for one who is given to dharma (righteousness). (Uttaradhyayana, 14/25)
9.
Those who are ignorant of the supreme purpose of life will never be able to attain nirvana (liberation) in spite of their observance of the vratas (vows) and niymas (rules) of religious conduct and practice of sila (celibacy) and tapas (penance).
(Samayasara, 153)
10.
My soul characterised by knowledge and faith is alone eternal. All other phases of my existence to which I am attached are external occurrences that are transitory.
(Niyamasara, 99)
