Sannyasa Dharma

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

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SANNYASA DHARMA
These three aids to holy conteinplation are technically known as yogas, which are constantly changing, the unsteadiness of dhyāna causing the flow of contemplative thought or feeling to pass incessantly from one of them to another. From another point of view, dhyāna is constantly shifting from the object to the word which represents it in thought. It also flows at times in the reverse order, i.e., from the word to the object itself. Sometimes there is the changing from the object's condition to its substance, which is technically known as arthr. sankranti. In sukla dhyāna the aspirant first learns to steady his thought on his own Spirit, though he is as yet unable to stop the changing of the yogas or the shifting of contemplative impulse between the object of thought and its verbal sign or mark This primary form of self-contemplation is known as prathakatruvitarka. vickára, and is the first limb of śukla dhyāna. When further progress has been made, and the mind is steadied in the contemplation of only one thing, which may be the object, its states, or its verbal mark, and when there is no changing of yogas, the second limb of sukla dhyānı is accomplished, which is termed ekathuvitarkavicharı. This very speedily leads to the destruction of what are known as inimical or obstructive karm us, and results in the acquisitiou of Omniscience, full and complete. Thereafter, words and images are no longer needed to enjoy the blissful. nature of one's own Spirit ; though there still exists the slightest tinge of the activity of the body-yoga in the
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