Jain Digest 2018 10

Author(s): Federation of JAINA
Publisher: USA Federation of JAINA

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aware that "I am a soul, performing this role. My first duty in this life is to work towards my own salvation. No one else can help me with that, I have to do it myself."
To solidify our understanding Upadhyayshri Vinayvijayji Maharaj explains in Shant Sudharas as follows: Do not love the ones, who do not or cannot love you in return. It could be living being or Pudgal. It will only end up in your suffering. Pudgals do not have raag or dwesh towards anybody but we humans love or hate them and cause pain to our own self. So "pudgal ras tyag" is the best way to save ourselves from that problem.
Contemplation of Anyatva Bhavana In order to contemplate on the Anyatva bhavana it is important to learn from the Guru and do regular satsang. It is only through the guidance from the learned that we can distinguish between what belongs to us and what does not. Here are some examples
of contemplation that one can do:
I am not this body...
"I am the Soul. I am the treasure of innumerable attributes like Daya, Shanti, Samata, Kshama, Satya, Tyag and Vairagya. They are all part of me. Their true potential is covered due to my Karmas. I have to unveil, realize, and experience them.
I am the SOUL
I have to stop thinking about Pudagals. I have to be aware not to get entangled in likes/dislikes and the material world.
I have to remember my indestructible and permanent nature. I want all my virtues to shine freely. I am the the Chetna, I am the soul. I do not need anything from anybody. I am complete in myself."
Bhinna Chhu Sarvathi, Sarva Prakare, Maro Koi Na Sangi Sansare We have to contemplate on all these and own it. Reduce our desires. This will help us to develop Anyatva bhavana. Practice Bhed Gyan.
Na Mara tan rup kanti yuvati, na putra ke bhrat na, Na Mara bhrut snehio swajan ke, na gotra ke gyat na. Na Mara dhan dham yauvan dhara, ye Moh agyatvana, Re re jiv vichar em j Sada, Anyatvada Bhavana.
Historic Examples of Anyatva Bhavana
• Bharat Chakravarti Maharaj had all the wealth and pleasures of this world and a beautiful body. One day when he was
getting ready in front of a mirror and saw one of his fingers looking bare. He realized that one of the rings had come off from that finger. He contemplated on it and then took out all the rings and then all the jewelry. He realized that his beauty was dependent on external things such as the jewelry and the clothes he was wearing; it was not his own. His contemplation got deeper and deeper. He developed "vairagya", left everything and took diksha and attained kevalgyan.
• Marudevi Mata was devastated after her son, Bhagavan Rushabhdev took diksha. She worried about her son's wellbeing.
She cried so much over the years that she became blind. One day when she heard that Rushabhdev had achieved Kevalgyan and was giving a sermon in a Samavsharan, Marudevi Mata was very happy and wanted to meet her son. Since she could not see anything, her grandson, Bharat, described the whole scene of the Samavsharan to her and she realized that she had unnecessarily worried about Rushabhdev. She realized that her attachment with her son was the main reason for her misery and all her concerns about her son were a needless waste of time. With such contemplation, she herself
achieved kevalgyan. Hence the message of Anyatva Bhavana is: "Chetan, Tu Nij Ghar Sambhaal"
ANYATVA BHAVANA - CONTEMPLATION OF SEPARATENESS Contemplation that everything other than the soul is Anya' not ours - and all other living beings and all
material things are separate from the soul is Anyatva Bhavana.
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