Sannyasa Dharma

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

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SANNYASA DHARMA
are immoral and unsteady in their conduct and who bring discredit on the order.
The pulaka is the saint who is unable to aspire to attain a higher degree of mental purity, and whose vows also are not perfectly observed. Nevertheless he may reach the heavens on death.
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The following kinds of persons are devoid of saintly merit, though they pass themselves off as sādhus outwardly the pärsvastha who is given to earning his living by means of instruments of dhärmic observances; the samsakta who practises invocations, charms, quack remedies, and the like; the avasanna who is devoid of faith and knowledge, both, though he observes the outward rules of the order of saints; the mriga charitra who has separated himself from the company of saints, and who brings discredit on the word of the Tirthamkara by his looseness of conduct in the observance of rules.
Sadhana (accomplishment of the ideal) is along
either
(i) the utsargamarga (path) which signifies supremely pure equanimous self-effacement, or (ii) the apavada märga, indicating a qualified form of dispassion, characterised by the taking of food, possession of sacred books, the feather whisk and the gourd, and the acceptance of pupils. Of these two, the latter is the cause of the attainment and perfection of the former,
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