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JAINISM
111 All this is the first step in the process. Then, now that we have stopped bodily movement, speech, sense activity, and mental imagery, with a feeling of reverence for those five classes of holy men, which will remove all baseness, with a feeling of forgiveness for all beings, including neighbours and enemies, and with the conviction that the virtues possessed by those holy men are potential and can be developed in us, contemplate.*
1. Blissfulness; the joy of being alive; the gloriousness of a miseryless world; that, as daylight is always present in the universe, as a permanent reality, so is bliss. Forgetting this is misery; sunlight never need be out of the mind; so with bliss, the feeling of glorious joy; revelling in life; immortality; you will hurt none, you know their joy in living, their love of life.
2. Contemplate truthfulness. The truth is there; you have but to know it, not to manufacture it. There is no effort, it is easy. Let it be asserted, not covered up, but see line 21, page 90.
3. Contemplate honesty. It is the opposite of stealing. Do the obvious thing, don't shirk.
4. Contemplate chastity; loyalty to one's marriage partner.
5. Contemplate contentedness. Limit the burden of material possessions; what will content us? Will one million pounds make us content? Do we want ten, like Mr. Morrison, of Reading, fifty like Mr. Harriman, of America, a hundred million, like Mr. Rockfeller, of America, to make us content. How much, after all, do
* The five Bhavanas, Tattvartha, S. VII, 2. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org
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