Aspects of Jaina Monasticism

Author(s): Nathmal Tatia, Mahendramuni
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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Versified Summary 39
of the Buddhists, ignoring the negative interpretation that is imposed on the concept by scholars, ancient as well as modern.
5. Free from desires all, Enduring misfortunes,
resigned; The power of clairvoyance he
gets, Engaged in penance and self
possessed.
6.
III. VERSIFIED SUMMARY
The account of the ten stages of the concentrated mind is followed by seventeen ślokas (verses) that contain the summary of the chapter. In consideration of their lucid style and the importance of their contents as giving a complete view of the nirgrantla discipline, we are tempted to attempt a versified rendering of them :
With coloration by austerities
made clean, Shines bright his intuition
pure; Above, below and in front, Does his clear intuition
spread.
1. With mind pure and
passionless, And deeply in meditation
engrossed; Firm in righteousness with
doubts gone, The joy of nivvāņa one
achieves.
7. With coloration restrained in
full, And free from discursive view; Liberated from bondage clean, His soul the mental phases
does know.
8. When the coating over
knowledge, Vanishes in full; The victor does know, The cosmos and a-cosmos too.
2.
With the recollection of lives
past, Never for this world he longs; The highest state of the self, Perceives he in memory deep.
9. When the coating over
intuition, Vanishes in full; The victor does intuit, The cosmos and a-cosmos too.
3. Dreams true forthwith he
dreams, Restrained fully as he is; Crossing the ocean of samsāra
of camsara
soon, Releases himself from suffering
10. When by intensive penance
pure, Freed is he from delusions all; The entire cosmios and
a-cosmos too, Intuits he, restrained in full.
all.
Taking abode in wilderness, And meditating in loneliness; With scanty diet, self
restrained, Gets vision of deities soon.
11. As when pricked on the crest,
A palm-tree dies; So do the karmas wither,