Studies in the Bhagavati Sutra

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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STUDIES IN THE BHAGAWATI SÜTRA
[Ch. VII
pranīta (rich) food prepared with ghee, ayanbila, āyāmasitthābhoga, arasahāra, virasāhāra, antähāra, pantāhāra, ruksāhāra, etc.
Kāyakleśa Tapah
Kayakleía-tapaḥ is a self-torturing asceticism which involves many kinds of physical sufferings for the concentration of mind, as it is thought that the attachment to the body is the bar to the purification of soul by meditation and attainment of spiritual realization. It consists in different kinds of postures, such as, sthānasthitikāsanika (kāyotsarga=standing position), utkutukāsanika, pratimāsthāyī, vīrāsana, naisadhikah, lakuțāsanika, etc. It is difficult to explain all these physical postures taken by the monks in the practice of their austerities and meditation without proper practical training in this yogic process.
Pratisamlīnatā tapaḥ
Pratisamlīnatā tapaḥ is the austerity known as control or restraint of senses, passions, activities and enjoyments of bed and seat (indriyapratisarlīnatā, kasāyasarlīnatā, yogasamlinatā, viviktasayanāsanasevanatā). These four kinds of pratisamlinata are further divided into different groups according to their respective numbers.
The control of senses is stated to be of five kinds, viz. control of the sense of hearing the desired and undesired sounds, sense of smell, sense of taste, and the sense of touch. The control of passion is of four kinds, viz. control of the rise of anger or the suppression of the risen anger and similar control of the other three, viz. pride, deceit and greed. The control of activities is divided into three groups, viz. control of mental, vocal and physical activities. They are again sub-divided into different kinds, e.g. the control of mental activity is threefold, viz, control of inauspicious activity of mind, the rise of auspicious activity of mind and the act of concentrating mind. Similarly the control of vocal activity is of three kinds like those of manasarlīnatā. Kāyasamlinata is a kind of control of physical activity which is practised by one having his hands