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Jaina Acāra : Siddhanta aura Svarūpa
197 may be because the body is visible but the soul is ever unseen. When some water is mixed with milk, it is impossible for you to separate the one from the other. The swan alone can do it. So also your uncontaminated soul knows that you are not your body. It discriminates between the two. While travelling, you meet many people but only to be separated from them. You feel pleasure and pain on meeting some and being separated from others respectively. The world is a covering for the soul. Remove the curtain and you witness your soul in all its glory. Do not only say but realise that the soul and body can never be identical. It is your hand not the body's hand. Such belief will make you feel cheerful and happy indeed.
The Sixth contemplation is to know that you try to make your body attractive with the help of glittering dress, powder, cream and the like. If perchance a little faeces sticks to your underwear, you wash it then and there. But don't you know that this body is the storehouse of blood, bones, marrow, germs etc, which, if possibly you could see, you yourself will begin to hate your own body. You are not what you seem. Unclothe yourself and try to see within your body which contains many diseases. They emit smell much worse than an old piece of leather. Is such a body to be loved ? Enter the inside of your body consciously. You will not be able to stay there for a minute.
A beauty-queen's face may be disfigured tomorrow because of smallpox, leprosy etc. Such is the body to which you should never be attached. Your watch repairer asks you to purchase a new watch rather than get the old, irreparable watch repaired again and again. There is also wear and tear of the body. The conscious can have no lasting alliance with the inert.
The Seventh contemplation is of the inflow of Karma. Influx and Karma are different one from the other. When the door is open, anybody and everybody may enter the room. The undesirable ones get attached to the soul. This is the dirt of Karmas. Influx is the cause and karmas are the effect. The cause does not lead to bondage. It is the effect that vitiates your soul. The aggregate of Karmas, when stationed inside, causes bondage. What Karmas are effected by mind, body and speech are dravyāšrava. What foreign matter enters the soul is bhavašrava. When you become passionfree, Karmas admission is not prohibited but they come to fruition prematurely. Such influx is called Iryāpatha. When Karmas enter accompanied with passion, such influx is known as Sāmparāyika. Falsity, heedlessness. irregularity in the observance of vows are contributory factors to bind the soul.
The Eighth contemplation is of the stoppage of the inflow of Karma. A room can be kept clean only when you keep the shutters closed. The soul is constantly dirtied because of your more inauspicious than
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