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their attachment with carnal desires and passions. In the same way the beings living in the higher world or heavens (gods) and the middle world (human beings and animals) are also suffering grief and pain for their attachment with carnal desires and passions.
(b) A farsighted seeker should think about the specific feelings and attitudes that become governing cause for a birth in higher, lower or middle world.
(c) Lok also means an instrument or subject of indulgence. Human body is an instrument of indulgence. To conceive it as constituted of three separate sections and ponder over each of them is called lok darshan or viewing the world. The three parts are
(i) Lower part-below the navel (ii) Higher part--above the navel (iii) Middle part--navel itself
Contemplation on these three sections becomes a source of a feeling of aversion for the body due to its evident impurity. This strengthens the ideas like ephemeral nature and worthlessness of the body and consequently reduces the fondness for it. In the Buddhist system of spiritual practices this is called 'Sharirvipashyana'. To ponder over the three worlds from different angles has been an established process of meditation.
This paragraph alludes that Bhagavan Mahavir, during his spiritual practices, focused his attention on fundamentals located in higher world, lower world and middle world and commenced his meditation. In Lok bhavana (the attitude towards the world; a specific meditational practice) also the stream of thoughts is directed at the form of the three worlds and the things existing there and effort is made to focus undivided attention on these.
(4) The awareness of repetition-Lust cannot be quenched or pacified by repeated indulgence in carnal pleasures. Instead, the fire of carnality is inflamed and rekindled as if butter was poured in a
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लोक-विजय : द्वितीय अध्ययन
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Lok Vijaya : Second Chapter
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