Sannyasa Dharma

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

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SANNTANA DHARMA
who are familiar with the customs and manners of the age and place and who have perfected themselves in the observance of the three guptis (the curbing of the mind, speech and the body are known as the three guptis) is termed upekshā sumyuma. The other kind, e.g., apahrita samyama, includes the observancos which are known as samitis. These have already been described in the earlier pages of this book, and the esanā samiti will be further described in connection with the rules relating to the saints' food.
The observance of samyama is characteristic of Right Conduct. It should be noted here that the apahrita samyama itself comprises two types of self-control, namely, (1) prānı parihöra which consists in the removal of pain of living beings and in the resolve to desist from causing them pain, and (2) indriya Samyama that signifies detachment from the objects of the senses.
Apahrita samyama is of three kinds, accord. ing as it is preliminary, middling or advanced. The advanced is the characteristic of saints who will not live in places which abound in small insects, to avoid injur. ing them. Those who will gently remove aside the insects with the soft pichchi (brush of peacock feathers) are of the middling type, while those who desire to remove them with something else, fall in the preliminary class,
There are eight kinds of suddhis (purifications) wbich are helpful in the observance and steadiness of apahşita samyama. These are as follows :
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