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The Jaina approach to Self-Realization
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satveșu maitri guņişu pramodam, klişteşu jiveșu krpāparatvam/ mādhyasthabhāvar viparitavritau, sadā mamātmā vidadhātu dev //
"Oh Lord! grant me ever and an non attection towards all living beings, joyful respect towards the virtuous ones; compassion and sympathy for the afflicted ones, and tolerance towards the perverted and the ill-behaved."
c. Meditation of the five worshipful personalities?? with deep
reflection on their divine and superhuman virtues, has found a wide and justifiable popularity among the aspirants. As one scrupulously follows the glorious and divine virtues of the supreme personalities, his consciousness becomes highly sharpened so as to comprehend the subtlest virtues of the absolute Self28
V. The Final Deep Dip : The aspirant has now acquired full worthiness
for a final dip into the absolute Self. In his pursuit of advanced meditation, he is henceforth alert, and with a sharp discriminative understanding concentrates further on his absolute Self. In the process of this deep concentration, the body, the senses, the respirations and the thought process, all are gradually discarded as non-Self. With utmost absorption in "Pure Knower" / "True I", everything disappears at the conscious level except pure, ineffable bliss, and the supra-normal wisdom dawns as the knots of the delusion are destroyed and Self-realization is accomplished. The relative plane of existence is felt like a dream, the unknown takes over the upper hand in all life-activities, which become surcharged with inner peace, constant awakening and spontaneous dispassion for all worldly objects. Nirvikalpa Samādhi prevails.
If such a state continues for some time? even the subtlest defilements of the soul are completely annihilated with attainment of omniscience, infinite bliss and immortality; heralding the fulfillment of the highest in the universe, the Self-realization 30,31. As Srimad Rājacandrastates on page 565 (Letter 738):
cāra karma ghanghāti te vyavaccheda jyan. bhavanā bijatano ātyantika nāśa jo.
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