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Q. Every sensible person would want that unclean
leshya does not dominate his life. What should he do to ensure this?
Ans. Clean leshya can influence unclean leshya and vice
- versa. For one to influence the other, there is need to make it strong. If clean leshya is stronger, the unclean leshya cannot influence it. It is a kind of a race. Whoever gets in the lead, dominates the other. Therefore, one must exert to make clean leshya stronger and more effective.
In our view, one way of making clean leshya strong is the creation of an armour. Many mantra-sadhaks have recourse to it to protect themselves from inauspicious outer influences. Some sadhaks make themselves a hardy defence, a Parshvanath shield. The novices make use of a mantra, also body-armour. Different communities use different mantras. This is the method commonly employed for avoiding the danger of external influences.
The second method is awareness, eternal wakefulness. If one's aim is to be constantly open to good feelings, bad feelings would have no occasion to manifest themselves. An accident takes place only when attention flags. This equally applies to the influence of unclean leshya. If a man is fully alert and aware of himself from moment to moment, no undesirable element could dominate him.
The strengthening of clean leshya, building a selfprotective armour, total awareness—with these any person can fulfil his urge to be free from the influence of unclean leshya, and lead a life free from contradiction.
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