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offer, Jainism offers a perfectly accurate, definite and exact science which is absolutely free from every form of mystic, misty ritual, unholy superstition and fear engender devotion, jainism only is offered on the authotiy of reason, thus all who desire to investigate its truth and attain the path of 'Samata' may fully understand and that which they will uneventually accept and pin their faith upon.
Acharya Shri Nanesh redefines the same Philosophy of Equanimity (Samata) in a more understandable form. He explains the three stages thereof as Samatavadi, (acceptance and statement of Samata in its all Philosophical and practical aspects) Samatadhari (its performance) and Samatadarshi (attainment of its visual power) and twenty-one maxims of Samatamaya practice. He gives a clear outline of a SamataSamaj (Society) to be formed and run on such lines as to achieve the goal pf Equanimity (Samaia) in this very life of the individual and in this very world apart of the attainment permanent abode of 'Nirvana'.
To start with a real Samatavadi or Samatadhari' will insist on the actual taking of a vow to refrain from the Seven Evils or Sapta Kuvyasanas to back of his godly resolve. By so doing he realises that he imparts greater firmness to the resolve and he also fully recognises that its breach is a little more difficult the would be the case of sin committed in a stage of vow-lessness. The man who says that he has no need of a vow, is evidently not decided in his mind, even though he may have had an urge towards disciplinary trainings which is an essential character of Samata Samaj. This path further goes on to adopt twenty-one Maxims and four pedestals of Siddhant Darshana (Philosophical perfection with right knowledge, Right Faith and Right Conduct as its base) Jeevan Darshan (Following of
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