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For the vow against worldly attachment, the 5 meditations are: giving up infatuation (Rága), and hatred (Dvesha) in the pleasing and displeasing worldly objects of the five senses.
The destructive or dangerous and censurable character of the - 5 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 4 following:
1. Maitri, Benevolence for all living beings (Sattveshu). 2. Pramoda, Delight at the sight of beings, better quali
fied or more advanced than ourselves on the path of
liberation (Guna-adhikshu). 3. Kárunya, Pity, Compassion for Klishyamáneshu, the
afflicted (klishyamáneshu). 4. Mádhyasthya, Tolerance or indifference to those who
are uncivil or ill-behaved (Avinayeshu). For Samvega, (the apprehension of the miseries of the world) and Vairágya, (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 subordinated to the soul.
Definitions of the 5 Sins. 1. By passional vibrations, the hurting of the vitalities is injury (Himsá).
2. Injury or himsá is to hurt the Pránas 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 Pramatta. yoga (Abrahmacharya).
Wordly attachment is múrchha, 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 Vratí or a vower should be without blemish which is like a thorn (shalya) which makes the whole body restless.
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