True Renunciation🔗

You renouncing smoking will not help because you may bring it back again. Smoking renouncing you is the only way. Your consciousness should become such, those senses should feel you are no more useful for them. They are no more useful for you and they can't exploit you anymore. They cannot live inside your system anymore. Only when your senses understand that your body and mind cannot be used by them anymore, you are liberated from them. They do not try to bind you, they do not try to create attachment in you.

The one who renounces sense enjoyment also renounces everything in the inner world and the outer world. Understand, it is a continuity from the earlier sutra.

The one who renounces sense enjoyments also renounces all attachments in the inner world and outer world. Such a person then receives initiation from the superior one, means the Master, and attains the state of a muni - the state where he does not consider this world asHis home and wants to enter into the other world. When he attains the state of a muni, he gets a glimpse of true dharma.

The Process of Enlightenment

Understand, now the sutras are explaining about the state of enlightenment and how you live in it. The one who renounces the sense enjoyments also renounces all other attachments in the inner and outer worlds. In the inner world also, you are not supposed to have any attachments. You are supposed to be experiencing the Truth even beyond the inner world.

If a person understands attachments are opposed to dharma in the inner world and outer world, he is initiated. Initiated means, the experience is transmitted from Master to him. The transmission of the ultimate experience happens and he attains the state of a muni. He attains the state of the enlightened one, siddha, the ultimate pure consciousness.

Once he gets a glimpse of the true dharma, he removes the veil of ignorance which surroundsHis true self. Once the veil of ignorance is removed, he attains completely the state of pure knowing, kevala gnana and pure darshan, kevala darshan, the pure enlightenment.

This whole sutra, the moksha marga sutra, is all about enlightenment and the ultimate state. It is a beautiful sutra and the next few sutras are also connected. The one who attains the state of pure knowing and pure experience is a sacchagin or a person who has conquered. He attains the state of kevala gnana, and transcends all planes of existence.

Once he attains the state of kevala gnana, he finally renounces the mind, speech and the body and attains the state of samadhi and shanti. Once he attains the state of shanti, he destroys all karma from the root and attains the state of the enlightened one, siddha. Once a siddha, he remains a siddha eternally.

Beautifully Mahāvīra is describing in various words about how enlightenment is achieved and how you remain in that state.

Now let us start the kevala gnana and kevala darshana, pure knowledge and pure experience.

Mahāvīra says that once the veil of ignorance is removed, he attains completely the state of pure knowing and pure experience. Mahāvīra is describing the process of enlightenment here through these five or six sutras.

The one who sees everything as movements in consciousness transcends sins and merits, bondage and liberation. The one who transcends sin and merit, bondage and liberation, understands the futility of sense enjoyments and goes beyond them. The one who renounces sense enjoyments also renounces the attachments in the inner and outer worlds. Such a person then receives initiation, means the transmission of energy happens from the superior one, the Master, and he attains the state of a muni. Once he gets a glimpse of true dharma, he removes the veil of ignorance that surroundsHis true self. Once the veil of ignorance is removed, he attains completely the state of pure knowing and pure experience. One who attains the state of pure knowing and pure experience, such a Jin (root word for Jain) attains the state of kevala gnana and transcends all the planes of existence. Once he has attained the state of kevala gnana, he renounces mind, body and speech and he is in shanta, stillness. Once he attains the state of stillness, he destroys all karmas from their root and attains the state of a siddha, enlightened one. Once a siddha, he remains to be eternally enlightened , siddha eternally.

See, beautiful sutras! But actually, the whole thing happens in one second. What Mahāvīra is describing is not step by step. He is describing using so many words the ultimate glimpse or the ultimate Truth, how it happens and how the person is established in enlightenment. You may think, by knowing all this, what is the direct use? Understand, if you deeply connect with the Truth of these teachings, feel connected, this very listening can just transport you to that plane, to that existence because there is no other qualification necessary to achieve this reality.

As I was telling you, your ignorance is too small to take enlightenment away from you. Your ignorance is too small. You are not so ignorant as you think. Even in ignorance, you are not as full as you think. Fortunately, you are not full even in your ignorance. Your ignorance is not so powerful as you think. It is possible for you to go beyond your ignorance.