Tulsi Prajna 2004 07

SR No.: 524620
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2004
Total Pages: 114
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 5 MB

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Even for leading an ascetic life certain minimum utilities are necessary. They have to be obtained. Even then, he should keep in mind that just as a voyager does not get attached to a boat which is essential to him for crossing the sea, so also a monk should not become attached to the utilities which otherwise are necessary merely for sustaining life. Things are either consumed or renounced. In practice, however, renunciation has certain limits. To keep body and soul together, one has to use and consume things. A seer of reality uses and consumes them, so does a common man, but there is a world of difference between their objects, feelings and the ways in which they utilise and consume them:
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Object Common man Material pleasure
Feeling Way of attachment non-disciplined
Seer
self-disciplined
Sustaining the body for spiritual development
of nonattachment
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Prākrte khid-krudhoh jūra ityādeśo bhavati. Acārānga Cürņi, p. 83 tassa avāya .... jatā ya tesim kāmäņam ihameva dosā. (a) Acārānga Cūrni, p. 83: ubhayalogaavāyadamsi .... (b) Dhavalā, book 13, khanda 5, part 4, sūtra 26, gāthā 39. P. 72. Apte, āyata - Curbed, Restrained. (a) Sivasamhitā, 2.5, 37; brahmändasmjñake dehe yathādeśam vyavasthitaḥ. mekasrurige sudhāraśmimarbahirastakalāyutah. 5 brahmandasamjñake dehe sthānāni syurbahuni ca. mayoktāni pradhānāni jñātavyāniha śāstrake ... 37 Tamtrasamgraha, part 2, p. 309, śloka 29: brahmāndalkaṣaṇam sarvam, dehamadhye vyavasthitam. sākārāśca vinaśyanti, nirākāro na naśyati. Carakasam hitā, Sārirasthāna 5.3 - purusoyam lokasam jäitah ityuvācabhagavān punarvasurătre-yah, yāvanto hi loke (mūrtimamtaḥ) bhāvaviśesāḥ tāvantah puruse, yāvantah puruṣe tāvanto loke iti. The first medium of disinfecting the mind from voluptuousness is the meditation of loka (universe): The term loka(universe) means objects of pleasure. One such object is the body. Therefore, the term loka here stands for 'body'. It has three sections, viz. The lower one - below the navel; The upper one - above the navel; The middle one - the navel itself
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