Sannyasa Dharma

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

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SANNYASA DHARMA
place for the soul and should do his best to escape from it. The effect of meditation on the samsāra anupreksha is to strengthen the resolution against embodied existence and the longing for the attainment of the deathless life of bliss in nirvana.
(4) Ekatva anuprekshā--The soul is alone; it has no real companion. Husband and wife, parents, 'friends, boon companions, dependents and other kinds of associates and hangers on, are all left behind in the moment of death. Even here, in life, one's suffer. ing and sorrow cannot be shared by anyone, not even by the son that is dear, and the dearest better half. These relations and ties are only so many entanglements for the soul, in reality. With much trouble are they to be maintained. One has to labour for earning the daily bread for their needs. At times the methods employed are by no means worthy of an honest man. Yet infatuated by attachment, one, again and again, condemns one's soul to suffering and torment in hell, for their sake. Is this not terrible delusion? He who constantly thinks thus frees him. self from the trammels of attachment and aversion and from their infatuations.
(5) Anyatva anuprekshā— The soul is Spirit; it is distinct from matter and Ether and the other kinds of substances. It is associated with matter in the case of the unemancipated being, but it is quite distinct from matter. Matter is unconscious ; the soul is conscious. For this reason it is different from the body and consequently from all those whose relationship
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