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

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SANNYASA DHARMA
59. By reducing the quantity of food and by staying in lonely places he should subjugate his senses, and withdraw from the objects of pleasure!
60. By the subjugation of the senses, by the elimination of attachment and aversion, and by refraining from causing injury to living beings one becomes qualified to attain salvation !
61 The saint should meditate on the consequences of not doing what is enjoined in the Scriptures and of doing what is forbidden, which acts lead to a re-birth in the animal kingdom; he should also meditate on the cause of hell-life and of the intense suffering that is caused in the hereafter, as they are described in the Scriptures!
62. He should regard as the fruition of evil karmas such incidents as separation from dear and near ones, association with evil-doers, the approach of old age, suffering caused by disease, and the like!
63. He should regard death, disease, the pain associated with gestation, and births in the innumer. able forms of the) lower kingdoms, eg, dogs, jackals etc., as forms of the bondage of his soul !
64. He should meditate on pain as the fruition of irreligious, and on salvation, which signifies the realisation of supreme bliss, as that of religious activity!
68. Though his body may be in pain, he should during the day as well as at night always move about only after carefully examining the ground to avoid causing injury to small insects, ants, and the like!
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