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VAIR AGYA OR RENUNCIATION IN JAINISM
with the principle of self restraint, to live and let live, etc etc without which no life whatsoever is possible Through the social life the Jaina seers, after their own experience, have also found out the path of self-development or enlightenment of soul, which technique is a highly logical and scientific one. Renouncing of worldly gifts altogether is the last phase of spirstual development and 18 like the giving up of one s pair of spectacles when his eyesight is regained or leaving the car or a railway compartment when one has reached his destination It is the concentration and application of mind to nothing else except to thoughts and actions conducive to the progressive self-realisation No thought of greed anger, avarice etc., 18 allowed to enter the mind All such ideas, which have already found refuge there, too, must be pushed out leaving room for virtuous thoughts, conducive to soul's progressive emancipation or salvation On this path of liberation or renunciation the aspirant's mind must be enlightened and fully disciplined or the soul must have its complete control over his mind
Conception of mind
In uttradhyana Sutra, Mana (mind & heart) with all its concentration, thinking and feeling faculties embodied, is compared to a horse and the imperfect layman rider over it, whose goal of life is to reach his home or liberation, with the help of the horse and without which covering the journey or achieving the goal is not possible. 'Mana' is out of the six Prayaptıs (physical attainments) more or less sensitive and efficient on the basis of past actions The soul is therefore advised to be well trained and disciplined enough to control the wiiful horse or to be the master of the horse in order to be able to achieve the goal of his human life, to achieve liberation, the cherished end of life, with the help of the horse So during the journey, on the path of the spiritual progress, the horse or the Mapa is not to be killed but to be controlled for the great purpose of the soul After the soul has reached its destination its bidding good-bye or renunciation to the horse and to all the remaining material epuipments, by the enlightened soul or the rider, 18 most naturally essetral and it does never mean indifference to them by the souls, who are on the path of spiritual progress When the aspirant soul has achieved its perfection or own attributes of perfection and all knowledge with the removal of the causes obstructing the same, why the soul after achieving perfection, should care for the material or the foreign elements, which serve no better purpose than its own attributes Thus all the material possessions and even physical faculties, which are so essential during the aspirant's journey on the path of spiritual progress are renounced in a natural way progressively with the effective spirit of true varragya or renunciation
'Mana , according to Jainism, is a material achievement (paryaptı) and is termed as Dravya Mana (or substantial or physical mind) It also gains consciousDess of its own kind termporarily as long as it is in touch with the soul's conscious
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