Niyamsara

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

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THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE JAINAS.
Commentary.
Devotion includes prai sing (stuti) of and obeisance (Bandana) to the Worshipful Lords, the two out of the six essential daily duties of a saint. Devotion should always be free from any perverse motive, i.e., one should not expect any worldly gain as a fruit of dovotion; rather he should look upon it only as a means to the purification of thought-activities, which lead to self-realisation and liberation.
It is necessary that one should first acquaint himself fully with the various attributes of those, whom he worships and then constantly meditate upon them. This kind of devotion is not pure and real devotion; it is only a righteous thought-activity and serves only as an auxilliary cause to the practice of real and supreme devotion.
In practising real devotion, one has to renounce all foreign and impure thought-activities, such as, attachment, aversion, etc., and keeping the real nature of the principles enunciated by the Conquerors, in his mind, as bases of contemplation is absorbed in one's own pure self, with the motive of attaining liberation.
CHAPTER XI.
REAL INDEPENDENCE (NISHCHAYA ÁVASHYAKA).
जो हवदि वसो तस्स दु कम्मं भांति आवासं । कम्मविणासणजोगो व्विइमग्गो त्ति पिज्जुत्तो ॥ १४१ ॥
यो न भवत्यन्यवशः तस्य तु कर्म भणन्त्यावश्यकम् । कर्मविनाशनयोगो निवृत्तिमार्ग इति प्ररूपितः ॥ १४१ ॥
141. He, who does not depend upon others, is said to perform independent action. (This action itself) is capable of destroying karmas, and, so, it has been described as the path of liberation.
वसो वसो अवसस्स कम्म वावस्तयं ति बोधव्वा । जुत्ति त्ति उवा ति य गिरवयवो होदि गिज्जुत्ती ॥ १४२ ॥ न वशो अवशः अवशस्य कर्म वाऽवश्यकमिति बोद्धव्यम् । युक्तिरिति उपाय इति च निरवयवो भवति निरुक्तिः ॥ १४२ ॥