Sannyasa Dharma

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

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SANNYASA DHARMA
Dhurma dhyüna covers a very wide ground, and the cntire field of philosophy, spiritual and secular Its basis is discrimination, and support, the Spripture of Truth, as propounded by an Omniscient and Veetrāga Deda. The Veetrāga Deva is the deified Man who has destroyed the sense of all kinds of loves and hatreds in His Soul, and has, consequently, absolutely no purpose of His own to serve; in other words, who is absolutely devoid of all those motives and fears and prejudices and aspirations, impelled by which men deceive one another. The need for scriptural help is apparent from the fact that no philosophy emanating from a finite brain can be exhaustive or faultlessly accurate at all times and under all conditions, not withstanding the fact that the unprejudiced How of sober intellectual sobered thought is capable of achieving wonders in the investigation of truth. The duty of the seeker after Truth Divine is to acquire the quality of discrimination, and then to employ it for the discovery of an absolutely unbiassed and fully qualified (that is to say, Omniscient) Teacher, in the light of whose unfailing Wisdom he is to direct bis own steps towards the path that is to lead to the goal of Bliss and Blessedness, aod the perfection of Gods. Dharma dhyāna is not possible for him who is averse to the teaching of Truth and unaware of the nature of the soul. Sukla dhyana, naturally, will be altogether out of the question for such a person. It is the most difficult to attain, and needs constant
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