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419 mutable. No relationship is lasting. A mother after her death can become a daughter, a sister, a wife or a mother etc. After his death, a son can become a father, a brother, or an enemy. An enemy after his death may become a father or a son. How can we deem such relationships permanent? How can we have attachments in such relationships ?
7. Ashraybhavana (the contemplation relating to the media through which sins gather). Falseness, lack of refrainment, passions, inauspicious situations and infatuations are the five dreadful Ashravas or sinful media. The flood of countless sins flows into the soul through these five doors. These are the entrances for sins to enter the soul. These doors have been open for countless janmas. "I must close these doors for ever in this life". . 8. Samvarbhavana (the contemplation relating to the process of dispelling sins). "I will stop falseness by righteousness; the absence of refrainment by refrainment; passions by patience and other virtues; inauspicious events by auspicious events and by the effect of auspicious events; and infatuation by sense and sanity. This shall be my greatest endeavour in this life". This is samvarbhavana.
9. Nirjarabhavana (the contemplation relating to the destruction of sins by austerities). "When shall I destroy my sinful Karmas by means of spiritual austerities ?" The destruction of Karmas is possible only by means of internal and external austerities. I shall make spirituality inform and reform my life so that all my sinful Karmas may be destroyed and my soul may become chastened”. Without Tapascharya (austerities) Karmas cannot be destroyed.
10. Lokhaswarupabhavana (contemplation of the fourteen Rajalokhas). "My soul has been always wandering through the fourteen Rajalokhas or fourteen worlds by means of birth, life and death. I have attained various kinds of janmas in the higher worlds, in the middle world and in the nether world. I have lived countless times, the life of heavenly beings, human beings, birds, animals and inhabitants of hell. When will these wanderings end ? When will my soul become perfect, awakened
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