Epitome of Jainism

SR No.: 006737
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: K B Jindal
Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publisher's Pvt Ltd New Delhi
Publication Year: 1988
Total Pages: 248
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 13 MB

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Gommatsara, Karma-kand
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Uttama-śaucha
Contentment. Uttama-satya
Truth. Uttama-samyama
Restraint. Uttama-tapa
Austerities. Uttama-tyaga
Renunciation. Uttama-ákinchanya, Supreme Non-attachment. Not taking the non-self
for one's own self; and
Uttama-brahmacharya, Supreme Chasity. (iv) Meditations.
The 12 Meditations are: 1. Anitya anuprekşá. Everything is subject to change or is transitory.
2. Âśaraṇa anuprekşâ, Unprotectiveness, Helplessness. The soul is unprotected from the fruition of karmas. Death, pain, pleasure, success, failure are the necessary results of our acts in this or past lives.
3. Samsára anuprekșa, Mundaneness. Soul moves in the cycle of existences and cannot attain true happiness till it is out of the cycle.
4. Ekatva anuprekșa, Loneliness. I am alone the doer of my actions and the enjoyer of the fruits of them.
5. Anayatva anuprekșa, Separateness, Otherness. The world, my relations and friends, my body, and mind, they are all distinct and separate from my real self.
6. Aśuchi anuprekşâ, Impurity. The body is impure and dirty. Purity is of two kinds--of the soul itself, and of the body and other things. This last is of eight kinds.
7. Âśrava anuprekșa, Inflow. The inflow of karma is the cause of my mundane existence and it is the product of passions etc.
8. Samvara anuprekşâ, Stoppage. The inflow must be stopped.
9. Nirjarâ anuprekşk, Shedding. Karmic matter must be shed from or shaken out of the soul.
10. Loka anupreksa, Universe. The nature of the Universe and its constituent elements in all their vast variety proving the insignificance and miserable nothingness of man in time and space.
11. Bodhi durlabha anuprekşá, Rarity of Right Path. It is difficult to attain right-belief, knowledge and conduct.
12. Dharma svakhya tattvánuprekşá, Nature of Right-Path as said by the the conquerors. The true nature of Truth, i. e., the three-fold path to real Liberation.
These must be meditated upon again and again. As to the first kind of meditation, viz., transitoriness, anitya anuprekşâ it must be noted that as substance, everything is permanent. Only condition is transitory. Of the matter assimilated as karma and non-karma by the soul, that which is accepted by the soul is called Upátta. The rest is Anupatta matter which is not taken in by the soul.