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thought and speech, he entertains only righteous thoughts avoiding all painful and evil thought activities. Thus renouncing all ways of evil thoughts, he acquires Right Faith and Right Conduct. He learns about the supremacy of the soul and engages himself in self-concentration. In short, he recounts, his lapses and transgressions of the rules of righteous conduct and thoughts committed during the day and directs the pure thought-activities of his soul towards concentration and realisation of the pure self.?
.2) Pratyākhyāna is renunciation from all worldly thoughts. He frees himself from all passions, bravely meets all temptations, and keeps himself away from inauspicious thoughts that are the cause of transmigration. It signifies a firm determinațion to avoid the pitfalls of evil Karmas. In real renunciation, the soul takes shelter in the pure nature of one's own self and is not allowed to be obsessed by any other idea which does not relate to itself. In this kind of renunciation, a saint realises himself to be all-knowing, all-powerful and all-blissful. He himself becomes pure consciousness personified. 8
3) Alocanā is confession which consists in the saint meditating upon his own soul being free from quasi Karmas noKarmas and Karmas, and devoid of the non-natural attributes and modifications which attend normally a worldly soul.9 Confcssion is of four kinds : ālocanā, āluñcana (eradication), avikstikaraṇa (non-deformity), and bhāvasuddhi (purity of thought). Alocanā is achieving equanimity to realise the soul. Aluñcana or eradication is acquisition of capacity to eradicate all K armas. He who realises his soul by acquisition of its attributes and equanimity by shedding off of the Karmas is said to practise Avikstikaraṇa or non-deformity. Bhāvasuddhi or purity of thought
ed by conguest of lust, pride, deceit and greed. It is only by the practice of these four kinds of confessions that a saini can achieve real spiritual progress and attain liberation from bondage of the Karmas.
4) Prayaścitta or expiation consists in the observance of the five vows, the five kinds of carefulness, self-control and attentive
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