Bhavana Bodh

Author(s): Shrimad Rajchandra
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram

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(7) ASRAV BHAVANA - To strongly feel that attachment, hatred, ignorance, sense of misconception (Mithyatva) etc all these are adventitious to our soul and they are making it impure. This is Asrav Bhavana - Seventh in the list.
BHAVANA BODH
(8) SAMVAR BHAVANA :- To see that our soul does not extend the worldly entanglements and does not perform new binding actions by keeping engaged one's own mind and activity in seeking right knowledge and practising right meditation. This is Samvar Bhavana - eighth in the list.
(9) NIRJARA BHAVANA - To act rightly with right perception, right knowledge so as to hasten one's march towards self-realization is the cause of elimination of soul's bondage. To think that way is Nirjara Bhavana - ninth in the list
(10) LOKASWARUP BHAVANA: To think and reflect on the nature of fourteen worlds in which a bound soul is rotating, is Lokaswarup Bhavana - tenth in the list.
(11) BODH DURALBHA BHAVANA: To realise that it is very difficult for a living soul to obtain presentation of right or self saving knowledge while tossing between pleasures and pains sorrow and suffering. One should consider himself fortunate if in this worldly life one gets right knowledge and there after it is still further difficult to adopt right religious discipline of non-attachment which leads one to self liberation. To think that way is Bodh Durlabha Bhavana, eleventh in the list.
(12) DHARMA DURLABHA BHAVANA: To obtain true teacher of religion who explains the aspirant of liberation the correct meaning of the sayings of scriptures and to hear him with faith and devotion is very difficult in this worldly life. To reflect on this is Dharma Durlabha Bhavana-the twelfth in the list.
In this presentation, we shall describe some of the above mentioned twelve soul-saving aspirations which strongly fix in the aspirant's mind an atmosphere of unflinching non-attachment. Some of these aspirations are distributed amongst some objective lessons and the rest of them require some other time for their elaboration and hence they are not worked out in detail.