Lecture On Jainism

Author(s): Lala Banarasidas
Publisher: Anuvrat Samiti

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Jains.
The leading two sects of the Jains, the Digambaras and the Swetambara Sambagis, should not be confounded with the Dhoondias. They should be judged from their own tenets in which it is strictly enjoined that we should keep the body pure and healthy.
Now a word about the Charitra of a Muni or Charitra of a Muni. monk, and I will close this lecture.
A Digambara Jain monk should live naked in the jungle, should sleep on the ground, should walk carefully casting his eyes four cubits before him on the ground, should take food once a day after avoiding forty-six Doshas and thirty-two Antaralas, should snatch away his hair as they grow, should bear twentytwo Parisahas or troubles, should give up fourteen internal and ten external Parigrahas and be a Nirgrantha, and should pass his whole time in Dharma Dhyana and Shukla Dhyana. A Swetambara Jain monk puts on white clothes. He lives in the city and sleeps on a bed.
Shukla Dhyana is Dhyana of self. Dharma Dhyana consists of Dasha Lakshani Dharma, twelve kinds of Tapa, thirteen kinds of Charitra, six Avashaktas, and twelve Bhavanas or Anuprekshas. In fact a Jain monk passes his whole time in killing the past and in preventing the coming of the fresh karmans, and in making his soul karmanless. I wish I had time to explain the position of a Jain monk. I wish I had time to explain the scope and the spirit of the Charitra of a Jain monk. Here I content myself with the explanation of only one circumstance. Why