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214 RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE JAINAS no life constituting the body of the fruit.
Putting living things among food which is free from life; for instance putting fresh cold water, which has life, with water that has been boiled. In the Jaina belief fresh cold water is a mass of living substance, and not merely the home of minute life or animalcule.
Giving the food etc., in a grudging spirit, saying that something which the monk may have asked us for and which we do not wish to give belongs to a friend or some one else.
Inviting the monk at a time which we know to be after he has taken his meal.
That is the end of twelve special rules for helping to change ourselves from what we actually are, ignorant, mistaken, weak, injurious beings to what we potentially are according to the teachings of those Masters who have developed their spiritual qualities to perfection and have attained omniscience in the flesh. The rules are based upon a certain foundation of character already developed — kindness of heart, self-control, desire for right knowledge and relish of truth, the internal attitude accompanying the extemal, visible practice of the rules. These rules bring out further knowledge, increased strength of character, greater peace of mind, sympathy and kindness, and lead to higher levels on the way towards an everlasting, blissful omniscience in a state of life which is natural to the real pure self and which is open to all who wish to attain it.
Concentration • It is the instrument or tool to be used in the scientific development of the character, the process of separating soul from matter. As already mentioned, it is only each individual person that can scientifically separate his own soul and the matter combined wih it. The separation cannot be scientifically (or in any other way) effected by another person. Concentration, as here meant, is a steady activity of the mind under the individual's own
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