Bhavana Sataka

Author(s): A S Gopani, Dharmshila Mahasati, Girishkumar P Shah Pandit
Publisher: Labhubhai P Mehta

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sequance. A person can select any one of the twelve and meditate over it, thereby profiting in proportion to the intensity of the Bhavana. Also, there is another set of the four Bhavanas yielding practically the same result, spiritual development to the full. They four also are included in the book, Bhavana S'ataka, forming an Appendix.
Let us briefly the Bhavanas. The first Bhavana puts emphasis on the ephemeral nature of all that happens and of all that we sec around excepting the Soul; the second, on the helplessness and uselessness of everything called nonsoul such as properly and estates as also the body even; the third, on the real nature of the world which is a hindrance to the spiritual uplift; the fourih, on the singleness of the Soul meaning thereby that the Soul alone is the dear and alone is the enjoyer or the experiencer; there is none or nothing sharing with it the miseries or the happinesses; the fifth, on the Soul's being a distinct entity and it has nothing to do with any one or any thing; the sixth, on the body's being a repository of filth, dirt and impurities; the seventh, cighth and ninth, on the influx, stoppage and shedding of the Karmas; the tenth, on the form and substance of the universe as also on the structure and location of it; the eleventh, on the fac: that it is difficult to attain right type of knowledge and enlightenment arising out of it; the twelfth and last, on the nature and constituents of right type of religion, the performance
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