Dravya Sangraha

Author(s): Nemichandramuni
Publisher: Chandraprabha Digambar Jain Mandir Trust

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Drav y a-Sangrah a
Tapa or excellant penance, (h) Uttama Tyaga or excellent abandonment, (i) Utrama Akinchanya or excellent indifference and (1) Uttama Brahmacharya or excellent celibacy.
The seventh variety of Dharma, viz. Uttama Tapa is, again, of two kinds : Vahya (external) and Avyantar (internal). Vahya Tapa (external penance) consists of Anasana (fasting), Avamodarya (regulation of diet), Vritti-parisankhyana (regulation of meals by observing the rules enjoined in the saina scriptures for begging alms), Rasa parityaga (abstinence from appetising food), Vivikta-sayyasana (sitting and lying at quiet and solitary places) and Kaya-Klesa (practice of bodily austerities). Avyantara Tapa (internal penance) consists of Prayaschitta (expiation), Vinaya (reverence), Vaiavritya (service). Svadhyaya (study of scriptures), Vyutsarga (giving up mundane objects and thought about the same) and Dhyana (meditation),
E. Anupreksa or reflection is of twelve kinds: (a) Anityanupreksa or reflection that every thing in this world is transient, (b) Asarananupreksa or reflection that that there is no other refuge of us in this world, except our own truth,(c) Samsaranupreksa or reflection about the cycles of worilly existence, (d) Ekatvanupraksa or refleccion that a person is solely and individually responsible for his own acts, whether good or bad, (e) Anyatvanupreksa or reflection that non-ego is separate from the ego. (f) Asuchitvanupreksa or reflection that the body and all that appertains to it is unclean, (g) Asravanugreksa or reflection about the influx of Karma, (h) Samvaranupreksa or reflection about stoppage of the influx of Karma, (i) Nirjaranupreksa or reflection about the removal of forzign energies which have already entered the soul, (i) Lokanupreksa or reflection about soul and matter and the real substances of this universe, (k) Bolhidurlabhanupreksa or reflection about the dificulty of attaining perfect faith, perfect knowledge and perfect conduct and i Dharmanapraksa or constant reflection about the essential principles of the universe.
F. Parisaha Jaya or conquering the troubles is the sixth kind of Samvara. The troubles which may afflict a herinit are of various kinds. : Gaining victory over all these troubles is what is known as Parisahajaya. The varieties of these are: (a) Ksudhaparisa haja ya or the victory over the troubles of hunger (b) Pipasa-parisa ha-ja ya or the victory over the troubles of thirst, (c) Sita-parisahajaya or victory over the troubles of cold, (d) Usnaparisa haja ya or the victory over the troubles of heat, (e) Damsa-masaka-parisa hajaya or the victory over the troubles from mosquitoes and gnats, (f) Nagnya parisa hafaya or