Sannyasa Dharma

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

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SANNYABA DHARMA
CHAPTER II.
The Múla Gunas. The sādhu should have the following twenty-eight múla (root) gunas (attributes or virtues)* :-- 1-5. the five great vows, namely,
(i.) ahimsa (harmlessness or non-injuring), (ii.) truthfulness, (iii.) non-stealing, (iv.) celibacy, (v.) renunciation of worldly things, and
foreign natures, external and in
ternal; 6-10. five kinds of controls (samitis) with respect to bodily movements and functions,
11-15, the controlling of the five senses ; 16–21. six necessary observances, namely, (i.) the practising of equanimity, and
dispassion. (ii.) salutation to Divinity, (iii.) the adoration of God, (iv.) confession, (v.) cultivating the sense of detachment from the body,
and (vin) study ; 22. prülling out the hair, 23. nudity, 24. non-bathing,
• These are termed root virtues, becalise in their absence other saintly virtues cannot be acquired. They are thus like the rout, in the absence of which stems and branches caunot come into being,
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