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Namaskara Mantra with remembrance of five worshipful personalities is quite popular in Jain tradition and has found a wide application among most aspirants(24). An incessant attitude of advanced non-attachment round the clock has been recommended in Samadhi Shatak/50.
Transcendental Meditation: By regularly performing the above practices with an enlightened vision and arduous devotion, the aspirant has now overcome almost all the eight types of sorrowful and cruel thoughts(25) He now undertakes the following three special types of contemplations to reach the peak of his worthiness,
आत्मज्ञानात् परं कार्य न बुद्धी धारयेत् चिरम् । कुर्यात् अर्थवशात् किंचित् वाक्कायाभ्याम् अतत्परः ॥
(a) He deeply reflects over the twelve types of contemplations namely transitoriness, helplessness, loneliness, distinctness, impurity, influx, stoppage, dissociation, the universe, rarity of enlightenment and truth proclaimed by religion
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He also inculcates the four special attitudes as depicted in the first stanza of Amirgati-Samayik-Path which reads as follows:
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सत्त्वेषु मैत्री गुणिषु प्रमोदं क्लिष्टेषु जीवेषु कृपापरत्वं । माध्यस्थभावं विपरीतवृत्तौ सदा ममात्मा विदधातु देव ॥
"Oh Lord! grant me ever and annon affection towards all living beings, joyful respect towards the virtuous ones;
compassion and sympathy for the afflicted ones,
and tolerance towards the perverted and the ill-behaved."
Meditation of the five worshipful personalities with deep reflection on their divine and superhuman virtues, has found at wide and justifiable popularity among the aspirants. As one scrupulously follows the glorious and divine virtues of the supreme personalities, his consciousness becomes highly sharpened so as to comprehend the subtlest virtues of the absolute Self
The Final Deep Dip: The aspirant has now acquired full worthiness for
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