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Vigilence -
TATTVARTHA SŪTRA : STOPPAGE AND SEPARATION: 141
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Īryābhāṣaiṣṇādānaniksepotsargāḥ samitayaḥ || 5 ||
The five types of vigilences are in the matters of - movement, language, victuals and necessities, upkeep of equipage and disposing the wastes. (5)
Duties
Uttamaḥ ksamāmārdavārjavaśaucasatyasamiyamatap
astyāgākiñcanyabrahmacaryānidharmaḥ|| 6 ||
Ten good duties of a spiritual practitioner for ensuring stoppage are well observd forgiveness, humility, sincerety, greedlessness, truthfulness, restraint, penance, renunciation, non-possession and celibacy. (6)
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Reflections --
Anityāśraṇasamisāraikatvanyatvāśucitvāsravasam– varanirjarālokabodhidurlabhadharmasvākhyātatvā
nu- cintanamanupreksāḥ || 7 ||
Continuously contemplating the 1. Transitory nature of existence,
2. Helplessness of worldly beings in the face of cosmic design, 3. world (as a cause of pain and misery), 4. Solitary nature of existence, 5. Differentness of self from anybody or anything else, 6. Foulness of physicality, 7. (Causes of) influx, 8. (Measures for) stoppage, 9. (Measures for) separation, 10. The Cosmos (and one's negligible existence in comparison), 11. The rarity of enlightenment (and hence to strive for it), and 12. The univrsality of the faith preached by the Omniscient prophets (for the greatest good of all living beings) (7)
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