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Austerities are:
External:
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SELF STUDY IS THE SUPREME AUSTERITY
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Internal:
o Expiation (9)
O Reverence (4),
O Selfless service (10),
Self studies (5),
Renunciation (2)
Fasting, under eating, giving up one specific taste daily
Limitation of begging foods,
Lonely habitation
Physical mortification;
。 Meditation (4)
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3.3 Karmic De-bonding/Dissociation or Nirjară
The spiritual objective of life is to acquire infinite bliss over physical pleasure. Karmas bonded with the soul are the major hindrance factors in fulfilling it. To eliminate their effects, there are the stages of influx, bonding, stoppage, fruition and dissociation to consider and act suitably.
We have already discussed bonding in details. We have to consider what happens after bonding?
The empirical soul or jīva has to develop a force of austerities etc. to counteract the force of attraction and aversion (main causes of bondage). The force of austerities must be greater than the force of attraction and aversion if ultimate spiritual progress is desired. The debonding process i.e. enhancing the forces of austerities and gradual elimination of the forces of attraction and aversion when followed continuously results in elimination of all the karmic bondage with the empirical soul till the pure soul state is achieved.
There are ten operations in Karmic systems where bondage and existence are also counted and which do change the volitional states of jīva or empirical soul and lead to de-bonding. These operations result in ten states of the karmas bonded with empirical soul, which shall be discussed later on in section 4.0.
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