Confluence of Opposites

SR No.: 006704
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain
Publication Year: 1921
Total Pages: 422
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES [ 137 Of these restraints, akimsá, which is the first in the order of enumeration, is again the one which is a special characteristic of Jainism, its very motto being ahimså parmo d2797ah (non-injuring is the bighest dharno).
The greatest stress is laid in the Yoga system on the attainment of sannidhi, which is, no doubt, the culmination of the process of self-contemplation, but its description is vague and meagre, and the steps which are said to lead to it in practicable. For pure self-contemplation is not possible for a house. holder; it arises as the culmination of a long course of training, both as a pious layman and an ardent ascetic. Priniyama, on which so much stress is laid by the Hindus in modern times, is in reality a very secondary affair. Patanjali bimself only just-alludes to it. It is merely a device to prevent mental distraction. It is not even touched upon in many of the other systems, and in Jainism also much; importance is not Hitached to it (see the frinêrnavn). The real samadhi is iternal, and arises from a subjugation of one's desires and lusts. The forms of meditation which lead to pure self-contemplation are also not described by Patanjali. I refer those of you who are interested in the subject to chapter XIII of my "Key of Knowledge” where the whole subject has been discussed and described. The space at my disposal does not admit of my going into so intricate a subject here.
I now come to the most fascinating part of Yoga which is concerned with the acquisition of miraculous