The Sacred Books of the Jainas Commatsara Karma-Kanda

I bow to him who is the guide on the path to libration the destroyer of mountains of Karma and the Knower of the principles of the universe ; so that I may attain these qualities of his. [...] The fiction Magazine with its teacings of crime and lasciviousness the daily newspaper with its reports of divorces dacoities and all the dirty details of human defects and aberrations are the greatest instruments of the Devil."2 Our costly and artificial systems of Education and Government also seem to be open to the same objection mostly. [...] The inflow of right-conduct-deluding karmic matter is caused by the intense thought-activity produced by the rise of the passions and of the quasi-passion no kashaya. [...] Not taking the vows of laymen and not adopting the restrictions (shila) but having slight attachment to the world and activity in it can be the cause of the inflow of age-karmic matter of all four kinds The inflow of Deva-Ayu celestial-age-karma is caused by.- 1. Saraga-samyama self-control with slight attachment found in monks only. [...] - The inflow of 7 karmas i. e. of all except the age-karma is going on always in souls influenced by the Passions and of the age-karma also on special occasions ; but the predominance of the above causes will determine the intensity of fruition (anubliaga) of their particular inflow.