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SAMVARA OR STOPPAGE.
which is possible with the mumu. kshin on the path-ways to bliss and beatitude, is again resolvable in dravya and bhava. Dravya samvara means the actual shutting out of the senses and other channels against the inflow of karmamatter where as Bhava samvara means the particular mental disposition which precedes Dravya samvara. Now constant thinking as to the ways and means of shutting up the various channels of asrava, destroying mithyatva, giving up of the arta and roudra dhyánas, practising only of shukla dhyana and dharma dhyana, replacing anger by its opposite, pride by humility, hypocrisy by veracity and the like which turn our minds away from persuing after things temporary is known by the
name of samvara bhavana. (9) Nirjara bhavana-Reflection on the
ways and means of purging the soul of all impurities. Nirjara
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