Fundamentals Of Jainism

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Veer Nirvan Bharti

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4. Constant meditation on the following twelve forms of reflection (bhavana): (i) Anitya bhavana-All things are transitory in the world;
no condition of existence therein is everlasting; it is useless to be attached to the forms of perishable things; they can only cause pain and suffering; dharma (religion) alone is one's true friend; friends, relations, health, wealth, beauty, strength and the like shall all desert one some day; atman alone is nitya (eternal); he alone has to taste the fruit-sukha (happiness) and duhkha (misery) of his actions; therefore one's atman alone is the fit
object of attachment." (ii) Asarana bhavana- None can help the jiva in his troubles,
he alone has to bear his pain and suffering; friends, relaions, wife and children are powerless to combat suffering and disease; dharma is the only protector of the helpless; dharma enables the jiva, by his own power, to surmount all obstacle therefore dharma should be practised under all circumstances. One should also be devoted to the five kinds of Teachers (Arhanta, Siddha, Acharya, Upadhyâya and Sådhu), who preach th true
dharma. (üi) Samsara bhavana—'Endless is the cycle of transmigration;
painful is every form of life; there is no happiness in any of the four conditions of existence; devas, human beings, animals and residetns of hells are all involved in pain and misery of some kind or other; moksha alone is blissful and free from pain; the wise should, therefore, only aspire for moksha; all other conditions are temporary and painful.' Ekatva bhavana-'Alone does the jiva come into the world; alone does he leave it to be re-born elsewhere; alone does he bear the consequences of his karmas; therefore, one should bestir oneself for the destruction of
karmas.' (v) Anyatra bhavana-Soul is distinct from the body; it is
also distinct from one's wife and child; at the moment of death it leaves them all-its body, relations and the like