Practical Path

SR No.: 006703
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1917
Total Pages: 268
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 11 MB

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THE PRACTICAL PATH.
types, the śubha (auspicious) and the aśubha (inauspicious). Those of the first kind are pure holy thoughts, straightforwardness, honest behaviour, frankness, candour, fair-dealing, love of truth, and the like; while those of the second are trickery, dishonesty, perversion of truth, falsehood, cunning, keeping false weights and measures, preparing false accounts, making faces, mimicry, prejudice, fanaticism, merriment at the malformation of others, and all other actions of a similar type which imply a distorted frame of body, or mind, or both.
The causes of the tirthamkara náma karma prakriti, the holiest and most auspicious of all the śubha energies of karma, are: 1 perfect faith, 2 control of passions, 3 observance of vows, 4 constant meditation on the tattvas, 5 fear of re-birth (samsára), 6 unstinted charity, 7 performance of austerities, 8 protection of munis (ascetics) engaged in tapa, 9 nursing and otherwise tending sick saints, 10 devotion to the omniscient tirthamkara and reflection on His virtues and attributes, 11-13 reverence for the acharya (Pontiff), the upadhyâya (Teacher or Preceptor), 13, l'everence for the Scripture, 14 due observance of the six essential rules of conduct [(i) daily meditation, (ii) praise of the 24 tirthamkaras, (iii) salutation to the Master, (iv) confession of sins, (v) study and (vi) Self-contemplation with a disclaimer of the sense of attachment to the physical body], 15 teaching and preaching the doctrines of Jainism, with a view to remove the darkness of ignorance from the world, and 16 cherishing great love for all true believers.
It is worth while to note that the nâma karma is chiefly concerned with the formation of the limbs of the physical