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POSTURES FOR SAMAYIKA AND PRATIKRAMAN RITUALS
Meditation in Standing Posture
The Practice of Equanimity (Pratikraman)
Essence of teachings helps us to remain calm and undisturbed, discard sinful activities, be free of all passions, and treat all equally.
Samayik
2 Chauvisattho-Worshipping Tirthankara Bhagawan
3 Guru Vandana- Offering Obeisance to Guru Maharaj 4 Pratikraman-Turning back from Transgression
5 Kayotsarga-Meditation
Meditation in Sitting Posture
6 Religious VowsPratyakhyana Pachchakhan
Samayik means to remain in the state of equanimity without yielding to attachment & aversion
Helps control our passions, purify our beliefs and attain right faith, Logassa Sutra offers obeisance to the 24 Tirthankar.
Respecting and Saluting our true spiritual teachers (Acharyas, Upadhyays, and Sadhus.)
Prati means back, Kraman means go, Subdue our ego, control our passions, advance spiritually, to go back, review, confess, and repent for bad thought/action
Stop the influx of karma, detaches us from the external world, concentrating on the feeling that the soul is separate from our body.
Experience the self and not the body, reduce attachment, abandon things harmful to the soul, accept things beneficial to the soul, disengage from worldly objects
Michhaami Dukkadan-Beg for Forgiveness: At the end of Pratikraman we become such soft hearted that we are ready to beg for forgiveness.
