Kartikeyanupreksha

Author(s): Swami Kumar, A N Upadhye, Kailashchandra Shastri
Publisher: Paramshrut Prabhavak Mandal

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This list as compared with that in the Tattvārthasūtra is wanting in asucitvar, and tattvacintā-bhāvanā seems to be additional: any way the twelvefold enumeration is maintained.
8) In one of the Païņņaya texts, namely, the Maranasamāhi, the twelve Bhāvanās are thus enumerated: 1 aniccabhāva, 2 asaranayā, 3 egayā, 4 annatta, 5 saṁsāra, 6 asubhayā, 7 logassahāva, 8 āsava, 9 saṁvara, 10 nijarana, 11 uttama-guna and 12 bohi-dullahayā.The object of these Bhavanās is to inculcate vairāgya or the spirit of detachment and renunciation; and they are explained in details in some 70 gāthās (569-688). 1) In this world the position and pelf, contacts and coresidence, physical gifts and worldly accessories are all transitory (574-77). 2) When one is pestered by birth, old age and death, the only shelter is the Jina-śāsana. Even with all the military equipments no king has been able to conquer death. Neither miracles nor medicines, neither friends nor relatives, not even gods, can save a man from death; and none else can share his agonies (578-83). 3) Others do not accompany one to the next world. One has to suffer all alone for one's Karmas. It is futile to weep for others without understanding one's own plight (584-88). 4) The body and relatives are all separate from the self (589). 5) With the mind deluded and not knowing the correct path, the Atman wanders in Saṁsāra, in various births, suffering physical pains and mental agonies. Birth, death, privations etc. are to be faced all along : the same soul plays different roles in different births without following the Dharma ( 590-600). 6) Dharma alone is subha, auspicious or beneficial, while wealth and pleasures lead one ultimately to misery (601-4). 7) There is no happiness in this world, in the various grades of existence, Birth, death, disease, impure body, separation and mental disturbances : all these leave no room for happiness (605–10). 8) Attachment, aversion, negligence, sensual temptations, greed, fivefold sin: all these lead to the inflow of Karmar into the soul like water into a leaky boat (611-18). 9) Eradication of passions, subjugation of senses, restraint over mind, speech and body through knowledge, meditation and penances rescue the soul from Karmic influx ( 619-24). 10) Fortunate are those who have severed worldly attachment, follow the path of religious life, and thus destroy the Karmas (625-28). 11) The path of religion preached by Jinas is highly beneficial, Deeper the detachment and spirit of renunciation, nearer one goes to the
1) Prakirnaka-dasakam (Bombay 1927 ), pp. 135 ff.
2) पढम अणिच्चभावं असरणयं एगयं च अन्नत्तं । संसारमसुभया वि य विविहं लोगस्सहावं च ॥ कम्मस्स आसवं संवरं च निज्जरणमुत्तमे य गुणे। जिणसासणम्मि बोहिं च दुलहं चिंतए मइमं ॥