Sannyasa Dharma

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

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SANNYASA DHARMA
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who refrains from causing harm to the six kinds living beings, and controls his (five) senses and the mind performs samyama. Accordingly, from this point of view, samyama is of twelve kinds, namely, (1-6) the offering of protection to the six kinds of living beings, and (7-12) the controlling of the five senses and the mind. † VII. Excellent
Tapascharana:-Tapascharana (from tapa, heating, and charyā or achāra, conduct) is the exalted path of the destruction of desire, by a disciplinary method of self-denial that is calculatod to burn up karmic impurities. The subject will be dealt with at suitable length in a chapter by itself.
VIII. EXCELLENT RENUNCIATION (tyuga).-Renun ciation is the root of the tree of happiness. Great tranquillity is enjoyed by him who makes steady progress in the practising of renunciation. But cheerfulness of the heart is the most essential requisite for its practising. Without cheerfulness, renunciation will be reduced to enforced poverty, and suppressed chagrin at it. It is wonderful that the pit of desire, which ever remains empty, in spite of the constant pouring in of things into it, is at once filled up by the renouncing of desires! The most excellent form of renunciation is the giving up of all desires with a
The six kinds of living beings are:
[1-4] four kinds of souls whose bodies are made of a single clement (earth, water, flre or air),
15] vegetable souls, and
[6] moving living beings, i, c., souls endowed with two or more senses, * See the Bhagwati Aradhana "by Saint Sivakoti Acharya,
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