Bauddh Dharm Darshan Sanskruti aur Kala

SR No.: 004152
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dharmchand Jain, Shweta Jain
Publisher: Bauddh Adhyayan Kendra
Publication Year: 2013
Total Pages: 212
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 17 MB

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Four Brahmvihāras of Budhist, 195
suggests that they become objects of concentration only when the adept is more matured and is capable of higher level of concentration.
To briefly summarize, these four Brahmavihāras are states of mind that erase ill mental modifications of rāga (attachment), dosa (hatred), īsāljealously) and asāyā (intolerance). Thus, they are the crucial stages in the ethical and spirtual ladder.
It seems important, here to mention that these Brahmavihāras are not unique to Buddhists, though, as said earlier they are discussed at great length in Buddhism, but they very clearly occur in the same terminology in other systems of Indian thought especially in Jaina texts and Pātañjala yoga system.
Among the Jaina texts Umāsvati's Tattvārthasūtra', Hemcandra's Yogaśāstra’, Haribhadra's Yogaśataka need mention. They are called bhāvanās which have very important role to play in stability of the principle of non-violence. Therefore they need to be cultivated and practised. In the main Agama texts also they are found scattered in various places. Likewise Pātñjala Yógasūtras also discuss these bhāvanās with the same terminology. Thus, it is clear that these Bhāvanās or Brahmavihāras have a place of universal acceptance in the ethics of Indian tradition showing that they have the same originating source.
In the end, I would like to re-emphasize that unless we psychologically feel and are strongly inclined to do a moral act, we will not do it. Thus, psychological and moral conduct are so intertwined that it is difficult to separate the two. However, they are still two separate entities. Moral conduct always begins with a mental state of awareness of “whether I do it or not. but lought to do it.” This is only to reassure us about the fact that how nature and nurture completes an individual being and how they are complimentary to each other.
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1. Tattvarthasūtra 7.6 2. Yogaśāstra - 4.1.17 · 3. Pātañjala Yogasūtras - 1.33