Niyamsara

Author(s): Kundkundacharya, Uggar Sain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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NIYAMSARA.
निष्कषायस्य दान्तस्य शूरस्य व्यवसायिनः। संसारभयभीतस्य प्रत्याख्यानं सुखं भवेत् ॥ १०५ ॥
105. He, who is free from passions, has controlled his senses and is brave, enterprising and afraid of birth and rebirth (is said) to practice happy renunciation.
एवं भेदभासं जो कुव्वइ जीवकम्मणो णिचं । पचक्खाणं सक्कदि धरिदें सो सिजदो णियमा ॥१०६॥
एवं भेदाभ्यासं यः करोति जीवकर्मणोः नित्यम् । प्रत्याख्यानं शक्तोति धतुं स संयतो नियमात् ॥ १०६॥
106. Thus, the saint who is constantly engaged in distinguishing between soul and material karmas, can regularly pursue renunciation with certainty.
Commentary, Practical Pratyákhyána relates only to the avoidance of those thought-activities and actions which are likely to arise in a mundane soul in future and cause disturbance in the observance of vows without transgressions and in the performance of essential duties. Renunciation (Pratyakhyana) thus signifies a resolution to avoid particular actions and thought-activities in future. This has been dealt with in gáthás 101-106. This kind of renunciation, although a great check for fresh bondage of evil Karmas, is not by itself pure renunciation. It is only an auxiliary cause to the practice of real renunciation which is self-absorption. In real renunciation, the soul takes shelter in the pure nature of its own self, and is not allowed to be obsessed by any other idea which does not relate to itself, In this kind of renunciation, a saint realises himself to be all knowing, all. powerful, and all-blissful ; and thinks that there is no distinction whatsoever between his soul and a perfect and liberated soul. When he is thus absorbed in his own self, he himself is really Right Belief, Right Knowledge, Right Conduct, Right Renunciation, and pure conscious thought-activity, all personified.
This real renunciation is described in gáthás 95-100. In gáthá 103 the author has referred to the practice of equanimity (Sámá. yika) in three ways, which are the following :-- (a) Lowest way (Jaghanya). In this stage a saint resorts to
an undisturbed solitude, and calmly and cheerfully