Basic Jain Culture Non Possession

Author(s): Padamchand Shastri, N L Jain
Publisher: Veer Seva Mandir Trust

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sex, there is no section in IPC to check growth of possession. Had the government thought of some relationship with the concept of nonpossession, or had prescribed a section of penalisation for excessive possession, the country would have freedom from many kinds of offence. Under these conditions, no body would occupy the property of others and neither there would be floods of offence like tax-evasion etc. The limit of accumulation would have been fixed and the people would have collected possessions within this limit. This would have resulted in absence of houses with unlimited possessions and of houses without possessions as is observed in the present causing worries everywhere.
We wish also to indicate here that the meditation, defined in 'Tattvartha Sutra' 9.27, is also based on non-possession and instrumental in karmic stoppage and shedding. In other words, we can also state that non-possessiveness and meditation are the same, occurring smiultancausly. The meditation could be practised only in the practice of non-possessiveness. How can there be meditation without it?
The meditation is characterised as the abidance in the selfand this should be the total non-possessiveness as is felt during meditation. There is karmic stoppage and shedding because of non-separation between meditation and non-possessiveness. However, meditation on single object after getting away from all other worries is also an activity which causes karmic influx. It will be there when there is even the activity of thinking. The worry or anxiety is the activity of mind. When there is thinking, there is activity which has been called as karmic influx which does not tally with the definition of meditation. Currently, we are concerned with that meditation which may be instrumental in karmic stoppage and shedding. I must repeat the thinking or concentration is the activity of mind which is influx due to its being an activity. Any other view on this point is unteneble.
Every body knows that acharya Umasvami has described karmic