Sannyasa Dharma

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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SANNYASA DHARMA
in the accomplishment, that is to say, the realiza. tion, of his great ideal, namely, moksha (salvation), on the siddhi (accomplishment or realization) of which he becomes a Siddha (Perfected Being), that is to say, a Perfect God.
There are several kinds of sadhus. They are known by different appellations by reason of the accomplishments in renunciation, by reason of the miraculous powers acquired by them, and also, at times, for other reasons. Generally, the term nirgrantha is applicable to all Digambar Saints, though originally it only applied to those of them who were on the point of attaining to omniscience, on the attainment of which they were called munis. The appellation of muni is also applied to a saint endowed with the faculties of clairvoyance or telepathy. The yati is the saint who is engaged in the yatna (endeavour) to accomplish the journey on the higher stages of the path known as śreni (climbing the ladder or the ascent). Those who have acquired some kind of riddhi (miraculous or psychic power) are termed rişis. The rişis are of four kinds : (i) the ?āja.rişi who is endowed with the
power to expand and contract his body to a miraculous extent, or with the akshina siddhi (see chapter is); the brahman ?işi who has the gift of great mental penetration, and whose shadow, contact, and the like possess
(ii)
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