Sannyasa Dharma

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

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SANNYASA DHARMA
His power is terrible; it is not ended on demise; it survives death to resuscitate and revive its victim's tender sores, and to devour him again. Thus does death play with life eternally. All are subject to his power, excepting such as have been enabled by the Master's word to overpower him in combat. They alone escape. I, too, have received the Gospel of Life from the Master's teaching Should I yield to a weakening sense of attachment for a perishable thing? Should I now listen to the counsels of this perishable body? Should the chances of success in the deadly combat with the Foe be nullified? No. Never! never!'
Such is the Anitya anupreksha. It annihilates the sense of attachment to worldly things, and enables the mind to turn to the inside' with ease,
(2) Asarana anupreksha.-Protection is of two kinds : (i) the worldly, and (ii) the supra-worldly. Each of these is of three types, the living, the nonliving, and the mixed. Kings, generals, potentates and the like are the living' protections'; forts, entrenchments etc., the non-living; and such things as en. trenched armies are the mixed kinds of refuge of the first sort for a living being. The Tirthamkara, the Perfect Souls, and the different classes of saints are the living supra-worldly protection; objects like the consecrated images of the Tirthamkaras and Siddhas (Perfected Souls) and Preceptors, the non-living protection; and the saints characterised by Dharmic observances are the mixed supra-worldly protections.
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