Sannyasa Dharma

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

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SANNYASA DHARMÀ
A tapasvi is the saint who adopts specially austere vows of asceticism with regard to fasting. A saikshya is the holy saint who has especially devoted himself to study.
The glâna is the saint who is afflicted with some bodily disease. A neophyte admitted into the order is termed manogyn, which term signi. fios a general favourite, and is also applied to a saiot who is generally popular in the sangha * (the company of saints), on account of his learning and all round excellence in the observance of rules.
Amongst the other classes of saints, the vakusa is actuated by a slight sense of attachment, in so far as he is moved by the desire that his pîchhi (whisk of soft feathers from the tail of a peacock) and kamandalu (the gourd for carrying pure, i.e., sterilized water) should be elegant to behold, 80 as to inspire the spirit of renunciation in others. The kuśila observes all the vows and principal rules of conduct, but owing to some special cause he is led to transgress some sec. ondary rules of conduct. Both the vakusa and the kusila are regarded as great saints who are unable to obtain salvation as such, but who may attain to higher heavens on death. According to another set of thinkers the kuśila are those who
* A company of three saints is called gand, and of seven, chcha (The Mulachara).
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