Wednesday ,September 10, 2008
Paryushan parv- Day Six- Uttam Sanyam or Supreme Self-restraint
Anupama Jain

“There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint” Mahatma Gandhi.
When we defend all living beings with highest power in a cosmopolitan fortitude refraining from all the pleasures provided by the five senses - touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing; and the sixth – mind it is called Sanyam or self restrain. Our soul in a condition of mithya gyaan or false belief presume that it consists of the body, the Karmas and the sentiments, likes, dislikes, fury, conceit, etc. As a result of this wrong conviction, it imposes pain upon itself and is this the reason of its own desolation These need to be eradicated by contemplating on the true nature of the soul.