Tulsi Prajna 2003 04

SR No.: 524615
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2003
Total Pages: 122
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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renunciation'. So long as the sense-organs are competenet, it is an opportune moment. The favourable place, time, star, constellation etc. and the destruction-cum-subsidence of karma too determine the opportune moment. One should consider proper moment from all angles of vision.
Now the Sūtra (26) defines the proper moment. One should engage oneself in the marvellous act of renunciation before one's ear, eye, nose, tongue and skin start decaying.
1. Acäränga Cūrni, p. 44 : mūlam pratisthā ādhāro ya egatthā.
2. (a) Gunamülasthānānām arthataḥ ekatvam pratipăditamasti cũrnau - atthato
bhamgavikalpā bha-vamti, gune se mūle, je mûle se gune?' āmam, evam 'je gune se thane, je thane se gune ?āmam ahavā 'je mūle se thāne je thāne se mule? āmam, abhia je gunesu vattai se müle vattatti, te ceva vikalpā,
evam etesim guņādiņam vamjanao nāņattam, atthao anānattam. (b) Sensual qualities may be either pleasing or displeasing. By having
attachment to the former and aversion to the latter, passions are intensified, which in their turn extend the cycle of transmigration. Thus the root cause of mundane existence is sensual qualities. Hence the author identifies carnality with the cycles of birth and death.
In the connection, see the theory presented by Dr. Vladimir Negovsky, the Chairman of the Laboratory of Re-animetology (Institute).
Cf. It is stated by Dr. Karlason that although on mathematical basis the life-span of human being is 150 years, yet broadly speaking it must be accepted as 100 years.
The energies of human body degenerate gradually during the period of human life. First of all, the signs of degeneration appear in eye. At the age of 10 years, flexibility of the eye-muscles starts decreasing, and reaches its maximum decrepitude at sixty. Another sign of eye's weakness becomes manifest in the capacity of vision's extension and clarity and also visibility in poor light. This sign starts appearing at forty. The same process occurs in weakening of the powers. The intensity of tasting and smelling capacities start decreasing at fifty and sixty, respectively. The auditory power, however, starts declining only at twenty. The digestive juices get affected also at twenty, and at sixty, their strength is reduced to fifty percent. At fifty, the secretion of pepsin and trypsin declines drastically. These juices are quite essential to keep the digestion intact. In fact, the weakness in digestion grows with the age only on account of deficiency in juices.
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