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Jain Mysticism
harmony is achieved, which cau never again be disturbed. For this kind of self-purification and self-discipline it is not necessary to visit holy places, set up images or build temples, or disguise oneself in various ways, or even to practise austerities. All these acts without the vision of the self, are like beating the chaff without the grain. Get the light from the enlightened and not from the benighted, and you shall know your self to be the Selt.
I shall now let the saint preach himself to the readers by reprod. ucing a few verses from his work under some well defined categories of mystic thought and experience, at the same time recalling parallels that readily suggest themselves from the utterances of other saints.
1 The ideal teacher and saint
गुरु दिणयरु गुरु हिमकिरणु गुरु दीवउ गुरु देउ । अप्पापरहं परंपरहं जो दरिसावइ भेउ ॥१॥
The sun is the teacher; the moon is the teacher; the lamp is the teacher and the divinity is the teacher. Whoever sheds light on the distinction between the self and the run-self is the teacher.
रायवयल्लहिं छहरसहिं पंचहिं रूवहिं चित्तु । जासु ण रंजिउ भुवणयलि सो जोइय करि मित्तु ।। १३२ ॥
Make friends with him, oh ascetic, whose mind is not coloured by the Passions, the six tastes and the five forms in this world.
वे भंजेविणु एक्कु किउ मणहं ण चारियविल्लि । तहि गुरुवहि हउं सिस्सणी अण्णहं करमि ण लल्लि ॥ १७४ ॥
I am the disciple of that teacher who has destroyed the duality and reduced it to one and has caused the creeper of the mind to be eaten away. I do not care for anybody else.
उव्वस वसिया जो करइ वसिया करइ जु सुण्णु । बलि किजउ तसु जोइयहि जासु ण पाउण पुण्णु ॥ १९२ ॥
Shatabdi Grauth ]
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