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Bhavnabodh - Samvar Bhavana
he gave him proper advice and he entrusted to him all duties of the kingdom of Pundarikini and returned home.
Seeing Kundarik, fallen from high ascetic life and returning to worldly life, neither his advisors nor his attendants followed his commands. On the contrary they began to hate him as he was of no good in either life. Kundarik, after assuming the rulership of Pundarikini kingdom, indulged in overeating. Due to this, one night, he suffered much pain and vomitted; but out of hate none went near him which made him very angry and he decided to punish, all those who did not help him, next morning, if he gets relief from his pain. He died while in such extreme anger and bad thoughts and went to seventh hell, inviting all sorts of sufferings and miseries to be endured for a very very long time. What terrible doors of incoming sins !!
Here ends the Asrava Bhavana in the Seventh Picture.
Eighth Picture
SAMVAR BHAVANA (Comtemplation of Restraint on New Bondages) Samvar Bhavana :- What are described in seventh picture, are the fifty seven entrances for incoming sins and to close these entrances completly is to stop all sins from entering our soul and that is known as Samvar Bhavana.
PUNDARIK Example :- (1) (Connecting the life of Kundarik as described in Seventh Picture) Pundarik, as referred in seventh picture, adopted the broom of wool and mouth bandage, left by his brother Kundarik in Ashokwadi in Pundarikini city and decided that he should approach a great enlightened saint and determined not to eat or drink till he met such a master. He travelled far and wide on bare foot and his feet bled profusely as pierced by brambles and stones and yet he bore all this pain with equanimity with a firm determination to succeed in reaching a fit master and died while in such mental state. This great man, Pundarik as a result of noble life was born as a supermost deity in heaven in Sarvartha Siddh Viman, endowed with a very very long life. Just see! What a miserable and pathetic fall of Kundarik by Asrav and what a great height of achevement obtained by his brother Punkarik by Samvar or stopping all entries of sin to his soul!
VAJRASWAMI Example : (2) Shri Vajraswami was completely unattached to wealth and women. One, very beautiful girl, named Rukmini the dauther of a very rich householder was very much attracted to him while listening a religious discourse of Vajraswami. On returning home, she said to her parents that in her life, as a woman, if she thought of a marriage, she would marry Vajraswami only and none else and that was her vow. Hearing this, her parents were much astonished and upset and they tried to convince Rukmini that Vajraswami being an ascetic, observing a vow of strict celibacy, would never accept to marry Rukmini as he had closed all entrances of sins to his soul i.e., he had firmly accepted Samvar Bhavana and put an end to Asrav. Still Rukmini was firm in her resolve to marry Vajraswami. In the end, to please his daughter her father took her with some wealth and going to Vajraswami, he requested him to marry his beautiful and
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