Kartikeyanupreksha

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

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KĀRTTIKEYANUPREKSA
vi) That the body is impure, pleasures thereof are futile and delusive, and the Atman alone is worth pursuing: this is a favourite theme of the canon. The Nāyādhamma-kahão, viii, presents a characteristic description of the body:
1) ... इमस्स पुण मोरालियसरीरस्स खेलासवस्स वंतासवस्स पित्तासवस्स सुक्कासवस्स सोणियपूयासवस्स दुख्यऊसासनीसासस्स दुरुयमुत्तपूहयपुरीसपुण्णस्स सडण जाव धम्मस्स केरिसए य परिणामे
2) इमं सरीरं अणिचं असुई असुइसंभवं । असासयावासमिणं दुक्खं केसाण भायणं ॥
मसासए सरीरम्मि रई नोवलभामहं । पच्छा पुरा व चइयग्वे फेणबुब्बुयसंणिौ ॥ 3) माणुस्सयं सरीरं पूईयं मंससुकहड्डेणं । परिसंठवियं सोहइ अच्छायणगंधमल्लेणं ॥
कित्तियमित्तं वण्णे अमेज्ममइयम्मि वञ्चसंघाए । रागो हुन कायम्वो विरागमूले सरीरम्मि । किमिकुलसयसंकिपणे असुहमचोक्खे मसासयमसारे । सेयमलपुटवडम्मि निव्वेयं वह सरीरे ॥
vii-ix) Asrava, Saṁvara and Nirjarā are three of the Seven Principles or Nine Categories of Jainism; they are closely linked with the Karma doctrine; they explain Samsāra on the one hand and lead the soul on to liberation on the other; and further, they form, to a very great extent, the basis of Jaina ethics and morality. At all suitable contexts they are discussed in the canon. Practically the whole of the Panhāvāgaranai is devoted to explain ūsava and sarvara."
x) A correct understanding of the universe (loka) with its two constituents, Jiva and Ajiva and their varieties and mutual reactions enables the Atman to understand oneself. Special treatises like the Divasāgarapannatti and Sūrapannatti etc. are devoted to this topic; and many of the canonical sections give details about Jiva etc. Here one cultivates the feeling of the immense greatness and extent of the universe and space, full of wandering souls.
xi) A gradation list of the rarities is often met with in the canon. Starting from Nigoda the soul is on a march of spiritual progress through various grades of living beings. Then to be born as a human being at a suitable place, in a good family, with a perfect and healthy body and with requisite opportunities for religious enlightenment is something that is rare. If the loka-anupreksā inculcated the feeling of immense space, this Anupreksā makes
1) Ed. N. V. VAIDYA ( Poona 1940 ) pp. 113 ff:, further Tandulaveyaliya, Sūtra 17, gives a more graphio description.
2) Uttarādhyayana XIX. 12–3 3) Tandulaveyaliya 84 ff., 90 ff. 4) W. SCHUBRING: Die Lehre der Jainas (Berlin and Leipzig 1935 ) pp. 186 etc. 5) Uttarādhyayana-sutra XXXVI. 6) Uttaradhyayana X.