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The Unknown Pilgrims
The vow concludes with a brief formula, common to certain other āvaśyakas also, expressing comprehensive repentance for all faults, denunciation of the same and renunciation of whatever in the ātman has committed any blameworthy act.
Much emphasis has been laid upon the predominant aspect of equality, similarity, unity in the concept of sämāyika. To consider it in more detail, let us look at its different aspects:
i) Nāma-sāmāyika
Whether one's own name is uttered with affection and respect by friends or in an insulting tone by foes, one must evince neither attachment towards well-wishers nor anger towards those who wish one ill. Words of whatever sort must have no effect upon the jiva (atman).
ii) Sthāpanå-sāmāyika
The shape or appearance of objects, as, for example, of a statue of an arhat, whether it be beautiful or ugly, must evoke no feelings of pleasure or aversion, for one must not identify oneself with an
object.10
iii) Dravya-sāmāyika
Whatever the nature of substances may be, whether of gold or of clay, one must regard them as "other" substances, independent of the jiva, that is, with a detached look, one that attaches no more importance to the one than to the other.
9 Cf. III P 700; 702; 706, 707.
10 Sthāpanā: establishment, erection, in particular of an image; here the word denotes that which is stable in an object.
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