ISJS Jainism Study Notes E5 Vol 02

Author(s): International School for Jain Studies
Publisher: International School for Jain Studies

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The fire of meditation consumes all good or bad for him who is free from attachment, aversions and evil mental, vocal and physical activities.
No physical movement, no speech, no thought, self engrossed in self... this is the meditation par-excellence.
Birth is accompanied by death, young by old age, wealth by transitoriness—thus one should reflect that everything is perishable.
All objects are perishable-reflecting on this, forsake great infatuation and detach the mind from objects of pleasure.
A wicked person does not give up deep-rooted enmity, is quarrelsome, devoid of goodness and mercy and is of licentious nature.
A gentle person is not partial, is free from desire of any return of his actions, is equal to all and free from attachment, aversion and affection.
The body is said to be the boat, the soul is the boatman, and the mundane existence is the ocean. The great sects cross over it.
The man of calm disposition must die, so must one possessed of cowardly disposition; death, thus, being inevitable, it is preferable to die with calmness.
All ignorant persons undergo suffering. The confounded wander endlessly in mundane existence.
The bondage in brief is like this: attachment binds detachment liberates.
The same bondage which an ignorant person gets rid of in million of years, is go rid of by an illuminated person in single breath by controlling his body mind and speech.
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