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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
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These five things are never formerly attained by the soul while wandering in this endless world and that is why they are termed as ‘Apurva Karana (Unprecedented).
This stage is also named by some as 'Nivrutti or Nivrutti Badar' as the souls arriving at this stage at the same time have a mutual change of soul's reflections (Nivrutti). These reflections are endless in number. The word 'Badar' placed after 'Nivrutti' indicates existence of gross passions.
Souls properly established on the sixth and seventh stage with religious concentration begin with pure concentration. They rise upto the first step of pure concentration. Here it must be noted that this concentration is acquired only by persons of 'Vajra Rushabha Narach Samghayana'.
Pure concentration is connected with preceding stages of soul's attributes so we shall give here general introduction about them.
Four kinds of pure-concentration : Pure concentration is faultless when purity of the soul bristles specifically. It has four varieties : (1) Single--belonging to scriptural concepts. (Pruthaktva
Vitarka Vichara). (2) Unified—belonging to one aspect of scriptural concept.
(Ekatva-Vitarka-Nirvichara). (3) Concentration after retiring from all thoughts about this
gross body (Sukshma Kriya-Apratipati). (4) Concentration after retiring from all functions of this phy
sical body. (Samuchchhinna Kriya-Nivrutti). Some one here would object that these technical terms are very hard to remember, but we say it depends on your interest in the study of this subject. If you take interest and make studies then you would easily remember them. In your business at stock exchange you easily remember long and cumbrous terms of various firms. You equally remember well the varieties of yarns and cloths manufactured in your mills as you have interest in your business and daily practice in muttering these names.
The first basis of pure meditation or concentration is individual ratiocination of scriptural concepts (Pruthakatva-Vitarka-Savichar). Here 'Pruthakatva' means distinctness, Vitarka' means knowledge of the scriptures and 'Vichara' means mental activity of
