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Jaina Acara : Siddhanta aura Svarūpa
otherwise, is merely a routiou observance, since the moment you start doing your own business, you become very much a man of the world. Where is the poor soul when the world holds you tight in its grip? It has been considered from different angles as follows :
(1) Nama sāmāyika-- It is the body that has distinguishing marks like a person's name, profession and the like. The moment spiritual aspirants realise that all souls are alike and nameless, they free themselves from worldly entangl
inglements.
(2) Sthāpanāsāmāyika--It is to realise that the soul transcends all form and shape which belong to non-self. Beauty attracts and ugliness repels but whom? Certainly not the unattached soul.
(3) Drasyasāmāyika—It is to realise the ever-abiding splendour of the soul, as compared with beauteous forms, gems, diamonds and the like whose existence itself is transient. Everything else but the soul is mortal. Pearls and gems are really stones, but it is man who stamps their value. Who does not know that the goddess of wealth is volatile?
(4) Kalasāmāyika-It is the body which feels heat, cold, rain, storm and the like. Spiritual aspirants have their bodies no doubt, but they themselves ate not bodies and hence the self ever remains unaffected.
(5) Ksetrasāmāyika-The place whether attractive or not, whether it is a greenorchard or an arid land, a city or forest is not the remotest concern of the soul. The animate keeps company with the inanimate. Not that one can be associated with its reverse. What has a soul to do with the inainmate gardens and palaces ?
(6) Bhāvasāmāyika-It looks up and never down. It is awakened, pure and enlightened. Life and death, honesty and dishonesty victory or defeat touch it not. Jinadāsaganimahattara has likened it tio a big city crowded with men and women as also decorated with parks and orchards. So also such aspirants are endowed with multifarious qualities which stand them in good stead. He says that this is the first and only benefaction which never turns into an ominous one. All worldly benedictions are liable to change. If a person sincerely and whole-heartedly attempts such ‘sāmāyika', only once in his life-time, he need not take more than about eight births to be liberated. It is the mythical philosopher's stone which is said to convert iron into gold by mere touch. Likewise it eradicates all accumulated blackish dirt so as to leave the soul spiritually clean.
It is of two kinds Dravya and Bhāva. The first consists of formalities like soil, cloth, broom, filter for the mouth, rosary and the like. All must be white and clean but never garish. Science has recognised the efficacy of white colour which symbolizes peace. It is a sort of religious rite which emphasizes the cult of religious rituals. The second is internal purity. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only
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