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Jaina Acara: Siddhanta aura Svarupa
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(5) Nişanna-sitting:
(6) Nisanna-Nisanna-sitting
Nisanna-utsrta-sitting
On righteous objects and sukla Thoughtless state.
On worldly things and Raudra Thoughtless state.
Thoughtless state.
On worldly things and the wrathful.
It can be done standing, sitting and lying. The standing posture is as
(7) Nisanna-autsṛta-lying (8) Nisanna-lying
(9) Nisanna-nisanna-lying
follows:
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Hang your hands towards the knee. Keep your feet parallel to each other. Keep the difference of four fingers between your forefeet.
The sitting posture is as follows:
Sit upright with legs crossed over the thighs. Place your hands either on your knee or place the right palm on the left one and then on your
lap.
The lying posture is as follows:
First stretch your limbs from head to foot and then slacken them. Do not keep your hands and feet in close proximity.
In all these poses your limbs must be relaxed and steady.
'Kayotsarga' has mostly been observed standing. Leading religious preceptors did likewise. Aparajita has stated that its practitioner should stop all bodily activities and stand straight like a pillar. He should stretch both arms towards his knees and meditate on righteousness silently. The body should neither be stiff nor quite bent. It should be done at a lonely, quiet, insectless place. The first step is to discard gross material and the next is subjective which is of three kinds :
(1) Kasayavyutsarga-It is to renounce the four kinds of passions as anger by forgiveness, pride by modesty and humility and deceit by simplicity.
(2) Samsaravyutsarga-It means renouncing the world. Its four kinds are :
(1) Dravya (2) Kāla (3) Ksetra (4) Bhāva. The first three cannot be renounced, since while living, one is necessarily concerned with these three. Matter, place and time touch everybody. This is the objective world. The subjective world consists of emotions. Acararga says that the world is nothing but the objects of sense-organs. Those who are ever attached to them are subject to the cycle of births and deaths. The four reasons that cause rebirth are perverted vision, violation of vows undertaken, negligence, passion and inauspicious concomitants.
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