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(6) Uttama samyama or highest self-control, restraint of senses and compassionate dealing.
(7) Uttama tapa or highest austerities, control of desire and self-meditation.
(8) Uttama tyâga, or highest charity, to bestow alms of food, medicine, knowledge and fearlessness to the deserving.
(9) Uttama åkinchanya or highest non-attachment, not to regard any non-self to be one's own self.
(10) Uttama Brahmacharya-highest chastity, refraining from thoughts of sexual enjoyment.
The Twelve meditations are ;
(1) Anitya or transitoriness—All created things and modifications are destructible such as riches, family, body, pleasure, pain, impure thoughts etc.
(2) Asarana or unprotectiveness, no one can protect us from death and karmic effects,
(3) Sansara or worldly wandering, all the four conditions of existence, hellish, celestial, sub-human, and human are full of sufferings and are therefore to be avoided.
(4) Ēkatva or solitariness. The self is alone responsible for its actions ; alone it is born, alone it dies, alone it has to suffer. Its nature is free from all non-self.
(5) Anyatva or otherness. All the good or bad karmas, body, different objects, conditions and non-self thoughts are other than one's own self.
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