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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM
To realize this, he may undertake to practise meditation either in the scorching rays of the sun on an elevated seat in the summer or in a cold uncovered place in
the winter. (6) Samlinata-Turning the senses from
their respective objects. This will develope the spirit of renunciation in the mumukshin jiva and strengthen his moral rectitude in such a manner as to make one look upon things most charming to the worldly as of no use and avail to him. This is how the senses, we are told, guarded against all temptations (Indriya samlinatá). Then again the mumukshin must control the passions and their correlates, such as anger, deceit, pride and greed (kasaya samlinata) as well as his thought, speech and body (yoga samlinata). And lastly, there is the viviktacharya which means previous ascertainment by a mu
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