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Gommatsara, Karma-kand
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up infatuation (Râga) and hatred (Dveșa) in the pleasing and displeasing worldly objects of the five senses.
The destructive or dangerous and censurable character of the five faults, injury etc. in this as also in the next world, ought to be meditated upon. One must also meditate, that the five faults, injury etc. are pain personified, as they themselves are the veritable wombs of pain.
And we must meditate upon the following four :
1. Maitri, Benevolence for all living beings (Sattveṣu).
2. Pramoda, Delight at the sight of beings, better qualified or more advanced than ourselves on the path of liberation (Guna-adhikeṣu). 3. Karunya, Pity, Compassion for the afflicted (kliṣyamaneṣu).
4. Madhyasthya, Tolerance or indifference to those who are uncivil or ill-behaved (Avinayeṣu).
For Samvega (the apprehension of the miseries of the world) and Vairagya (non-attachment to sense pleasures), we should meditate upon the nature of the world and of our physical body. The world is transitory and not fit for love; and the body is impure and hampering in spiritual progress and therefore should be sub-ordinated to the soul.
The Five Sins
1. By passional vibrations, the hurting of the vitalities is injury (Himsâ). 2. Injury or Himsâ is to hurt the Prâņas or vitalities, through Pramattayoga, i.e. vibration due to the passions, which agitate the mind, body or speech.
3. Falsehood is to speak hurtful words through Pramattyoga, passional vibrations (Avirati).
4. Theft is to take anything which is not given through Pramattayoga (Steya). 5. Unchastity is coition or sexual contact, through Pramattayoga (Abrahmacharya).
Worldly attachment is mûrchâ, infatuation or intoxication, through Pramattoyoga, in the living or non-living objects of the world (Parigraha).
Worldly objects are said to be Parigraha, because they are the external causes of internal attachment.
A Vrati or a vower should be without blemish which is like a thorn (śalya) which makes the whole body restless.
This Salya or blemish is of three kinds :
1. Maya-salya, the thorn of deceit.
2. Mithyá-salya the thorn of wrong-belief.
3. Nidana, the thorn of desire for future sense-pleasures.
Vowers are of two kinds: Agâri; householders (laymen) and Anagâra, houseless (ascetics).
One whose five vows are partial is a householder. The householder's life has 11 Pratimâs or stages given above*.
* Supra p. 165
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