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MANAV DHARMA / 33
Now let us see what is PARIGRAHA ? Feeling of love and attachment of worldly possessions and luxuries and take them as beneficial to ones self is called Parigraha. It is of two kinds (1) Ahankar - Vanity or Conceit (2) Mamkar - Attachment with external objects and worldly relatives
This living being forgets his own nature of inner self and is always thinking to feed and fulfill all the bodily requirements and there he gets a feeling of pride when he satisfies all his passions and consider this body as his soul. This has been termed as AHANKAR - false vanity by our Acharyas. Secondly when he establishes or creates attraction with all external attachemtns or the actual possessions of living and non-living objects, which defies purity of his soul. Now these both types of attachments have so powerfully encircled this own-self that generally it becomes highly difficult to discard them. That is why they are called PARIGRAHA which have bonded the soul in lot of troubles, pains and agony and to be free from all these bondages of pains and troubles, the ascetics, who are strict followers of Mahavratas (known as Mahavrati) totally abstain from both of these parigrahas.
When there is a feeling of great attachment with all worldly and external objects like land, House ornaments, wealth, animals, servants, utensils and Cloths and so many other objects, then it is highly difficult to abstain from them easily or to have a wilful detachment from them, but even this can be done to some extent by developing a sense of contentment with what is available. But to detach a feeling of love for ones own body and the worldly relatives and to renounce them is not easy but extremely difficult. Though to leave this outwardly physical body may not be very difficult but there is a very minute visible Luminous (4) body which is co-related with transmigrating body and due to this co-relation, the bonded soul has to face the trouble of birth and death cycle or the process of births and rebirths. And to be far away from these is not very easy, on the other hand, it needs a constant practice of self realisation and abiding in one's own nature, making and using this physical body as a helper to this practice of self realisation. But instead of adorning this physical body by bathing, by using scents and perfumes and keeping it clean and upto date, if one makes it his own servant, obeying ones orders and by developing the feelings of toleration and self contentment, then only we can name it as APARIGRAHA DHARMA. because fulfilment of desires is in their extinction and not in pursuing.
In the lives of such Aparigrahi Mahavratees, there is no place and scope for agonies and pleasures. There is no harm if they live in forests or Jungles and no profit if they live in towns. Neither any trouble nor any wealth remains important in their lives. As the sky
