Sannyasa Dharma

SR No.: 006707
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain
Total Pages: 174
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 7 MB

Page 102

SANNYASA DHARMA
most part of the Universe is called Siddha Sila, where reside all those pure and perfect Souls that have freed themselves from the bondage of karmas. They are all Omniscient, and enjoy unending, unabating, unchanging, uninterrupted bliss. All other conditions of life below this sacred land of nirvana are really painful; even life in the heavens is not free from death, though so pleasant otherwise. It is terminable and becomes a regular source of misery, when the prospect of a fall into an inferior condition stares one actually in the face. Other conditions are all inferior, and they are clearly full of moments of distress and pain. The seeker after the Bliss of Gods, therefore, has his eyes steadily fixed on the Ideal of Perfection and Divinity, and shuns the world to realize the inherent inborn joy of his true Self.
The effect of the Loka anupreksha is the clarity of the mind in respect of the knowledge of what are known as tattvas (ultimate heads or subjects of knowledge), and the eradication of a longing for worldly life.
(11) Bothidurlabha anu prekshā. — Difficult, exceedingly difficult, it is to obtain the human form. The lowest grades of life in group-souls (in the vege table kingdom) is really very very far removed from man. The two-sensed are a bit nearer, but still there remain so many intervening stages to be passed. Then come the three-sensed, the four sensed and the fivesensed beings. These are nearer and nearer humanity;
91