Prasamrati Prakarana

Author(s): Umaswati, Umaswami, Mahesh Bhogilal, V M Kulkarni
Publisher: Nita M Bhogilal & Others

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is completely free from any defects. Those who surrender to it, by being totally absorbed in it, cross this great ocean of birth and rebirth with the utmost ease.
162. The meditation of Durlabhā Bodhi Bhāvanā: It is difficult enough to reach the human form, to be born where one can get rid of one's Karmas, to be born in an Ārya country (i.e. where Dharma is practised), to be born in an Arya (Jain) family, to have good health and finally to be blessed with a long life span. Yet it is far more difficult to have a strong faith in the Religion, to find the right Guru to guide one, and to hear the scriptures from his mouth. Still much more difficult is reaching the state of Bodhi, that is, having the right vision and faith and the right knowledge.
163. After a myriad of lives one reaches the state of Bodhi (see verse 162) which is immensely difficult to reach. Yet because of delusions, desires, the exposure to other wrong paths of religion, and one's deep-rooted pride regarding wealth and glory, taste, and the temporal happiness, it is very difficult to lead the path where sinning has stopped in part or in full.
164. Finally, having found that path where all sinning has stopped, because a) of not completely controlling one's senses, b) one's great passions of anger, pride, deceit and greed, c) one's deep - rooted pride due to possession of wealth and enjoyment of tastes, and pleasures of sense and d) the inability to bear and overcome the pain of opposites of heat/cold etc., the victory over the path of complete detachment is achieved after a herculean and painful effort only.
165. The enemies, which are in the form of the four great passions (of anger, pride, deceit and greed, are the leaders of the group of i) the pair of opposites heat/cold etc., ii) the senses, and iii) the deep-rooted pride regarding wealth and glory, taste and the material pleasures and possessions. Those enemies - the