Some Jaina Canonical Sutras c8.35

c8.35

Sinners, subject to love and hatred and doing wrong, acquire karma arising from passions and commit many sins. The careless commit sins by thoughts, words, and acts. A cruel man does cruel acts and is thereby involved in other cruelties. Sinful undertakings will in the end bring about miseries. A pious monk, who is free from bonds and has done away with all fetters, annihilates his bad karma and removes the thorn of sin. Following the right conduct he exerts himself. A wise man can conquer his greed and enter upon the noble path When a wise man comes to know that the apportioned space of his life draws towards its end, he should in the meantime quickly learn the method of dying a religious death ² The virtuous exert themselves with regard to the distant end, i e., liberation. One should live indifferent to one's own happiness, calm and without attachment. The iniquity (vaira) of all men, who cling to property, goes on increasing A wise man should be content with such food and drink as will sustain his life. He knows