Jainism For Beginners Level 02

Author(s): Sayampurnashreeji
Publisher: Sayampurnashreeji

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body? It is nothing but a bundle of bones, muscles and blood. How unclean inside! Outside the body looks fascinating with its white and bright complexion; but inside it is unclean. Then why should we have so much attachment for it? Why should we decorate it and make it look fascinating?"
आस्लव भावना
ANYATVA
bhavana Thinking of the soul as separate from the body.
w hen we are shaken by bodily and QUV mental agonies, we should think thus, “The body and the soul are different from each other. They are separate from each other. The body is inert but my soul is the very embodiment of consciousness. The soul is imperishable. It will not die. The body, of course, burns and becomes ashes. Agonies afflict only the body, but the soul is detached. I am not the body the body is not mine”.
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ASHRAV
bhavana Thinking of renouncing inauspicious
propensities and actions. Cvil propensities and actions
pollute and corrupt the soul. One must get free from them. One should know what those wicked passions and actions are and should renounce them.
motigar
-अशौच भावना -sbe
REFLECTIONS BHAVANAS
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ASHUCHI
bhavana Thinking that the body is unclean. w h en the beauty of anyone's body
kindles the passions and burns us, we should think thus: "What is this
SAMVAR
bhavana Thinking of renouncing the evils of the
mind, the speech and the body. X iscarding the evil propensities of
the mind, speech and the body and concentrating the mind on noble propensities since that would release the soul from the bondage of Karma; and enabling noble propensities to surround the mind.
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