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RELIGIOUS SECTS
disinterestedness, abstraction, mortification, truth, purity, poverty, and continence.
5. Bhávaná, conviction or conclusion, such as that worldly existences are not eternal, that there is no refuge after death, that life is perpetually migrating through the eighty-four lakhs of living forms, that life is one or many: it also includes perception of the source whence evil acts proceed, and the like.
The sixth division of this class is Charitra, practice or observance, of five sorts: Sámáyika, conventional, or the practice and avoidance of such actions as are permitted or prescribed; Chhedopasthápaniya, prevention of evil, as of the destruction of animal life; Pariharaviśuddhi, purification by such mortification and penance as are enjoined by the example of ancient saints and sages. Sulakshmasampariya, the practices of those pious men who have attained a certain degree of eminence; and Yatháklyátam, the same after all the impediments and impurities of human nature are overcome or destroyed.
VII. Nirjará, the seventh Tattwa, is the religious practice that destroys mortal impurities, or, in other words, penance: it is of two kinds, external and internal; the first comprehends fasting, continence, silence, and bodily suffering; the second, repentance, piety, protection of the virtuous, study, meditation, and disregard, or rejection of both virtue and vice.
VIII. Bandha is the integral association of life with acts, as of milk with water, fire with a red hot iron ball; it is of four kinds: Prakriti, the natural dispo
