Tulsi Prajna 2000 01

SR No.: 524602
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 128
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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Jainism is a practical religion. It expects the spiritual and ethical progress to be gradual and by stages. Samādhimarana is accounted as that process in which the ethical progress and spiritual development are paved. It entertains in itself the meaning of liberation, the highest and supreme development. It progress in due courses by annihilating karmas and different forms of passion by practising meditation prescribed in the Texts. It takes very long time but in methodical viz. 12 years and 40 steps.
Provide comfort and save from all adverses of owns body engrows passions and one is attached too much with his body. He cares it with all hooks and crooks. Through Samadhimarana the sense of such esteemed attachement for physical body is being broken out and it helps the individual to develop selfcontrol and self-restraint, so that the observance of fasting, meditation and other austerities become a part of normal life. The practiser step by step gets high ethical conduct and spiritual attainment as will easily fit him into a life of renunciation.
Samādhimarana is a name of complete peace of mind. Tranquility and equanimity are essential attributes for the vow of Samādhimarana. Now, here question is, how can one get complete peace of mind full of equanimity and trainquility before adopting the vow of Samadhimarana. For this one should confess fully before an able person. his previous actions and thoughts. That able man guides him to give up all prejudices which inborn by those deeds which have been previously done by him. In case he may not get an able guide to whom he may confess, he should sit calmly, meditate upon the pañca-paramesthi and recall to one's own mind all types of sins and transgressions either committed by onself or committeed at one's instigation. By the confession the sicker gains control over the ills which engrow in his unconscious and emerge out in different forms of passion and attachment.
The practiser should shut all evil thoughts. If he is suffering from some deadly or serious disease, he should endure all the pangs with equanimity and tranquility without exhibiting any signs of suffering, with an inborn conviction that the disease itself is the fruit of one's own karma. In that way the mind should be freed from all passions and infirmities. Such good thoughts motivate the individual to acquire the peace of mind and he succeeds. Now, one can get the quality of tranquail mind which provide him the vices of equanimity. and the individual attain the ability to perform peaceful death i.e. Samādhimarana.
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