Stanza 9 and 10    

Kuguru

Suguru is one who is a saint and follows 28 qualities. (Naked saint. Digambar muni.)

• 5 vows
  
  • Satya- Truth
    
  • Ahimsa- Nonviolence
    
  • Achaurya- Non-stealing
    
  • Aparigray- Non-possessiveness
    
  • Brahmachariya- Celibacy
    

 

• Control all five senses
  
• 6 essentials
  
  • Samayik to retain equanimity for a duration of 48 mins to 96 mins. Saints do it 3 to 4 times a day
    
  • Stuti something which is done in the praise of the 24 tithankars
    
  • Vandana only done for a specific tirthankar, sadhu, updahdhay
    
  • Pratikraman repentence for the bad things done. Is a procedure which is done to purify the bad karmas, for the bad things done, since the last evening.
    
  • Pratyakhyana is a kind of informal pledge to not repeat the sins in the future. VIMAL BHAKTI
    
  • Kayatsyorg= kay and utsorg Kay is body and utsorg means tyaag. Uter means give away. Give away the body. When we do kaytsyorg we give up all the attachements for the body and we only focus on the soul.
    

Nadis

The channels and passages through which the Pranashakti goes all over the body. There is not even one part of the body which is not connected to one of these nadis. As per Hata yoga, there are 3500 nadis all over the body. 14 are mainly known, out of which three are very important and they are: (i) Sushumna (ii) ida, and (iii) Pingala.

Sushumna: This nadi starts from the base of the spine and goes straight up along the spinal column to the base of the skull, reaching the brain. This is represented by white color and fire as its symbol.

Ida: Ida has a blue color and is represented by the moon as its symbol. This nadi starts on the left side of the base of the spine and reaches the left nostril. The Tantras describe the left side as containing the feminine, creative, emotional and peaceful aspects of nature. Due to the feminine aspect of Ida, it is considered to be full ofmaternal energy. It nourishes and purifies the entire body and mind which makes one alert and fit for advanced meditation.

Pingala: This nadi starts on the right side of the base of the spine and reaches the right nostril. As per Yogic texts the right side is considered the male aspect of nature and is predominated by raw and physical.

 

 

Grahit and Agrahit Mithyatva

Wrong Faith- Mithya Darshan

Agrahit Mithyatva is the one that is carried from previous birth and has obtained sanskar in this birth.

Grahit Mityatva is the sanskar that one has learned from others in this birth.

 

Stanza 8

Meaning

 

 

 

Further Discussion

 

Faith (Darshan) and knowledge (Jnan) leads to conduct (Charitra).

Wrong faith and wrong knowledge leads to wrong conduct (Mithya Charitra)

Right faith and right knowledge leads to right conduct

Agrahit faith and agrahit wrong knowledge leads to Agrahit conduct

A person likes sensual pleasure(indriya), however he/she does not realize that it is not good for the soul because the likes builds raag and dwesh to the body, which we have to depart from at the time of death. Extra sensory pleasure (atiindriya) is obtained from atma.

 

Stanza 9 and 10

 

 

Meaning

 

Further Discussion

Su= Good

Ku= Wrong

Kuguru, kudev, kudharm

Sudev Su = Right Dev= Lord Right Lord

Sudev has the following characteristics

• Vitragi detaches from everything
  
• Sarvagya and Kevalgnan omniscient
  
• Kevalgnan knowledge of 3 kal and 3 lokh
  
• Hitupdesh Hit= eternally good updesh= preaches
  

Sudev has detachment from everything.

Sarvagya

Hitupdesh someone who tells us what is right for us.

Sudev tells us what is right and we should follow him

    

Dhal 2 Stanza 7

Stanza 7

Nirjara and Moksha

Nirjara happens by taap and penance. Taap is ridding desires.

We should not be chan chul (he/she that does not keep still in mind body and speech) because we cannot achieve moksha.

Wrong faith- no matter what the surroundings, good or bad, are we can be in peace with them because with wrong faith we would believe that whatever is happening is right.

Moksha- Wrong faith does not believe in moksha

He/She would not know that he would have the potential

He/She would not know the path

Siddhs are the liberated souls

NO KARMA- NO BODY- INFINITE KNOWLEDGE- INFINITE BLISS

Dhal 2 Stanza 6

Stanza 6

Samvar Stoppage

Bandh bondage

Wrong Vision- Mithya Darshan Wrong Faith

Mithya Drasti is one who has the wrong faith and wrong knowledge

Does not have the appropriate faith bandh and sanvar

Bandh
He/She does not realize that he is not getting the fruits from the karma bondage. He/She thinks that it happens by accident. He/She does not realize that if something bad happens then it is because of the bad deeds he did in the past. What we sow is what we reap. A person who does not have a good bandh karma he/she is not able to understand that the past and present.

Shubh Bandh punya

Ashubh Bandh pap

Sanvar is the stoppage of influx of karma

Quick Review of Dhal 1

Stanza's 1-16

 

All living beings in the three worlds (upper, middle, and lower) are craving for happiness and are afraid of sufferings. The living being is suffered because he did not understand the real nature of the self. The association of the four realms of existence is not the reason for one to be unhappy. Still he maintains oneness with the alien substances in the universe resulting in suffering. In this chapter the Author, Kavivar Pandit Daulatram, explains the results of the seven mistakes as narrated in the second chapter. These mistakes are the reasons why the soul is unhappy and suffering in the transmigratory cycle of life and death leading to the endless wandering within the four realms of existence. He enters into the human, subhuman, celestial, and infernal existence and ends up suffering. In these four realms, the lowest form of life (nigodh) is the worst where the soul has only one sense of touch and ends up spending infinite period of time. It is possible that after spending sometime in the remaining of one sense life, the soul gets a chance to come out and enters into two- sensed to five- sensed. In extreme rarity, he becomes a human with possession of five senses and the mind. In the human life, one can persevere in the right direction leading to the understanding the real nature of the self, which ultimately leads to the path of liberation. This ultimately ends the misery of the cycle of life and death.

 

Dhal 2

 

Why those sufferings exist?

 

Here is a story that illustrates this .

There was a stray monkey going around looking for food. He finds a pot. The pot has a thin neck and fat bottom. He sticks his hand in the pot and grabs a hand full of beans. Then when he tries to pull his hand out, it does not come out so he screams because the beans are in his hand and they made his hand bigger. The root of his suffering is his ignorance. Because of the ignorance he did not know why it happens and began crying and shouting.

 

Stanza 1

 

 

Aise Mithyaa Drug-Gyaan_Charannavash,

Bhramat Bharat Dukh Janm-Maranna;

Taatain Inkoon Tajiye Sujaan

Suni Tis Sankshep Kahoon Bakhaani.

 

Meaning

 

The living being wanders in this universe and suffers the pains of birth and death because of wrong faith, wrong knowledge, and wrong conduct. Therefore after knowing them well, leave them. I describe these three in brief, please listen.

 

Mithya Darshan Wrong faith and wrong

Mithya Charitra Doing things which takes you opposite towards the path of liberation

Mitya Darshan Wrong Faith

Agrahit Mityatva Happens from the sanskar or from the previous life

Grahit Mityatva Something which you acquired by the wrong preaching of someone

 

5 Kinds of Mityatva = Wrong Belief

1. Ekanta Mithyatva is a one-sided belief. When you understand something partially and think what you know is complete (new sects created). For example, you look at a ripe mango which is yellow. Its properties are that it is sweet, yellow, ripe, and juicy. However with Ekanta Mithyatva you would only say that the mango is yellow.
   
2. Viprita Mithyatva is a contrary belief. However things are, you consider them to be the opposite of what they actually are. For example, to believe body as to be the soul.
   
3. Sanshaya Mithyatva is a doubtful Belief. In the doubt state you do not know which is the REAL truth. For example, whether the soul is the doer of his own actions or the doer of someone or something else's actions.
   
4. Agnaan Mithyatva is ignorance. You do not have wisdom to know what is right and wrong. For example one believes it to be a religious act by killing and offering an animal to the deity.
   

Vinaya Mithyatva is treating all Gods and all religions of different sects to be equally right (having veneration with non-discriminating attitude).

Stanza 15

Starting point: A

Destination point: B

There are two paths that one can take:

1. Path leads a to b
   
2. Path that doesn't lead from a to b
   

A current position, sansar

B destination, moksha

Samvar is going from a to b

There are7 tattva:

Jeev: soul, something with the capability to know. Chetna. Capability to be aware. Consciousness

Ajeev: Body, no chetan shakti. No consciousness

Ashrav: influx of karma good and bad

Bandh: 1. get time stamp to bear fruit, 2. difference in intensity

Samvar: from A to B. stoppage of influx of karma by mind, body, and speech. All the vows: truth, non violence, no greed, not stealing, abstinence,

Nirjara

Moksha: Destination reached after all karma is shed.    

Ashrav and Bandh causes suffering while we are doing it and causes suffering later.

Samvar and Nirjara are blissful and result in a blissful state.

 

The above steps can be expressed by the following example of a both:Boat.

1. Hole in boat and water starts to come in.
   
2. Guy in boat is jeev and boat is ajeev.
   
3. Water comes in by ashrav.
   
4. Accumulation is bandh ( bondage of karma)
   
5. To prevent drowning stops the hole, samvar.
   
6. Starts removing water from boat, nirjara
   
7. Reaches shore, moksha….
   

 

 

Nirjara: 2 types

1. Akam nirjara: (does not lead to moksha)
   
   1. Karma comes to rise and gives fruit
      
   2. And then get shed by itself
      
   3. Example: daily activity, get something unfavorable Ex. Injury
      
   4. Ashrav continues because you are doing emotions due to the bearing of fruits
      
2. Sakam nirjara (leads to moksha; liberation from worldly sufferings and karma and transmigratoy cycle.)
   
   1. Shed by Tap.
      
   2. Tap is getting rid of desire. Iccha nirodh
      
   3. Desire less state
      
   4. Stops influx of karma
      

All feelings happen because some kind of attachment to something.

Anger, stress, jealously, hatred and aversions will go away with time.

Desires don't go away

If one overcomes desire, then one can overcome attachment feelings.

True nature of soul appears after win over desires.

Ichha is subset of raag

Raag is bigger umbrella. Desire is included in raag.

2 raags

1. Prasha raag
   
   1. Raag supporting towards spiritual bliss
      
   2. Desire towards moksha
      
   3. Desire towards good spiritual qualities
      
   4. Towards bringing extra sensory pleasure
      
   5. All compassions and friendly emotions to all living beings
      
   6. Feelings to help someone
      
   7. Fulfilling duty as house holder
      
      1. Intention is the by fulfilling duty it will be happy and can pursue my path to liberation
         
      2. No with intention to get something in return. If you want something in return then it is apraha raag.
         

      
       

2. Aprasha raag
   
   1. Desire towards worldly things
      
   2. Brings name, fame, and wealth.
      
   3. Expect favor back for favor or duty.
      

Making bad money is worse than making money with aprasha raag.

Samyak drasti: one with right belief in 7 tattvas.

As proceeding to path of liberation the raag diminishes. At time of moksha then both prasha and aprasha raag go away.

Stanza 15:

Sometimes because of shedding the karma by akam nirjara one takes birth in 3 lower heavenly being.

There they get burnt in desire towards sensory pleasures.

Daavanal is wild forest fire. 6 months before death their garland around their neck withers away.

And realize they will die and realize they will die and take birth as something else, not dev again or hell. These thoughts create a lot of stress and at the time of death they suffer in intense agony.

Stanza 14

After birth, he goes thru 3 stages

1) childhood
2) youth/prime
3) old age.

in the childhood, the soul doesnt have knowledge, it doesnt know whats right or wrong (vivek, samyakta).

In youth, he gets engaged in sensory pleasure, gets focused in the career, tries to earn money, remains engaged in sansar.

In old age, he is half dead, and doesn't have the energy or enthusiasm to learn about Dharm and realize its true nature.

Theres another example of a sugar cane.

When its in the field, it has roots, then theres juice in between, and on the top there are leaves. THis represents 3 stages of it.

The bottom part is the root, its childhood
the juice is the youth,
the old age is the leaf.

When we use sugarcane, only the juice is useful, similarly, when a man has to understand his own nature, he must engage only in the tasks that are most useful, hence the youth is the only age when he is healthy and can attain knowledge most effectively.

The problem that comes in youth is the attraction towards sensory pleasure, fame, money, passion etc. He can give these things up, give up his distractions that are there due to his arrogance. To satisfy their ego, they build up piles of wealth, possessions (engages in parigraha). This leads him to have no time to find motivation/time to do the right dharma


Primer to Karma

There are infinite souls in the universe, and they keep traversing from one state to another, sometimes they are in suffering, sometimes in happiness. They have to bear the fruits and evils of their deeds/thoughts/speech, and we are where we are due to our past. We take complete responsibility for it, noone else has influenced or brought us to our state

dravya karm-
They are infinitely small particles of karma.

Bhaav karma- doing something bad to someone gets attached with a time stamp to it, and they lets suppose give fruit after some yrs, and they will start giving us unfavorable conditions, and also negative emotions like anger/greed/ego etc

Nirjara :

• 1) asrav - influx of karma

• 2) bandh- bondage (and also timestamp when they'll give fruits... and also intensity, with what intensity to give fruits)

• 3) samvar- stoppage of influx, when we overcome our 4 greed pride anger deceit

• 4) Nirjara- Shedding of Karma

a) akaam - when karma comes into rise, it gives its fruits, and when it gives its fruits, it gets shed. So either you benefit, or suffer, but after that its shed

b) sakaam - penances, in order to dissociate karma, in this he doesnt bear the fruits of the karma, they simply get destroyed. Tapasvis are an example, where they destroy their penance through tap (penance)

soul gets attached thru contraction and expansion, and there are 2 types of karmic particles

1) passive
2) active.

with the process of yoga, the passive starts turning active. At the time, whatever emotion you're doing, the active ones get some kind of timestamp and intensity


if you;re going on a boat which has a hole, the process of entering the water is called asrav, when it gets bonded to the boat, its called bandh, and covering the hole is called samvar, and when you start bailing the water out, its called nirjar

Moksh = zero karma, can't attain moksh if there is any Karma left attached.