Kartikeyanupreksha

SR No.: 090248
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kumar Swami
Publisher: Paramshrut Prabhavak Mandal
Total Pages: 589
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Religion
File Size: 19 MB

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INTRODUCTION
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the cultivation of peace and self-restraint, abetaining from Worldly activities 1) Swadhyâya: study of scriptures is indifferent to other's criticism, eliminates wicked thoughts, helps one to ascertain reality, and is an aid to meditation or concentration of mind. Devoted study of Jaina scriptures, withogt craving for respect and with a view to removing Karmas, tesda to happiness; but if it is attended with vanity, craving and opposition to oolleagues, it is harmful. The study of texts dealing with fight and love with a disturbed mind and with & view to dupe other people, bears no benefit. Worthy is that study which enables one to realize one's Atman, full of knowledge and quite separated from the body. Kiiyotsarga means indifference to body, its caressing and needs and being engrosged in Belf-meditation with perfect detachment with reference to every thing outside. v) Dhycina: Concentration of mind on a certain item for a while is known as dhyana which may be inauspicious or auspicious. Arta and Raudra are insuspicious, while Dharms and Sukla &re auspicious. Passions are soute in Arta, still nore acute in Raudra;
at they are temperate in Dharma and still more temperate in Sukls which is possessed by one who is free from passions and is possessed of scriptors! knowledge and by the omniscient (488-72 ).
Artadhyana or the miserable mood develops when Obe wants to secape miserable contacts and when one wants pleasant associations from which one is separatod. In the Raudra-dhyāna one repeatedly revels in injury to living beings and in telling lies; one is not only keen about one's possessions and plengdres but wants to deprive others of them. Arts and Rsudra are a source of in, and as such they should be studiously avoided.
Dharma means the nature of things, ten-fold virtues like ksama etc. the three jewels and protection of living beings. Attachment and aversion, sense pleasures and extraneous distractions eto. are avoided and the mind is concentrated on the nature of Atman, and one goes on meditating with joy and peace : that is Dharma-dhyaux,
In the Sukla-dhyāna virtues grow parer, the Karnas are quieted and eradicated, the Leśyās are white, and one advances in spiritual parification. When all delusion is melted away, when all passions are pacified and when one is engrogged in oneself, there is Sukladhyāna in its four stages ( 473-88),
Svámi Kumara bag expounded with great devotion these Acuprekşās with a view to womprebend the words of Jins and to restrain the fickle mind. A study of these Anuprekşās, which are explained according to Jināgama, leads to eternal bliss (489–90 ).