Sannyasa Dharma

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

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SANNYASA DAARMA
cheerful heart and with the eye fixed steadily on tho supremo good.
IX. EXOBLLUNT SELFLESSNESS (alcinchanya) The sense of possession, 'this-is-mine' idea, is the source of innumerable ills. Anger, jealousy, and other powerful passious are fostered by it. Its dos. truction leads to vairāgya (sense of detachment from the world). The best form of excellent selflessness con. sists in the developinent of the feeling of detachment froin oue's own physical body, which is the source of all the mischief. Recollecting, thinking and talking of one's past belongings and possessions is as much to be condemned as the actual cravin g for worldly pomp and show in the present.
X. ExoellENT CELIBACY (brahmacharya) - Celibacy prevents the commission of a very large number of sins. Excellent celibacy must imply tho absence of past recollections about female beauty. even of one's own wife's affections and love.