The Perfect Law (1931) - Page 4

CONTENTS.

Chapter.		Page.
	Publisher’s note
	Introduction	1—9
I	Soul Jiva: the living, sentient essence or individual soul	1—12
II	Non-Soul Ajiva: non-sentient matter and substance	12—20
III	Pure Thought-Activity Shuddha Bhâva: a state of pure mental vibration or intent	20—31
IV	Practical Right Conduct Vyavahâra Charitra: ethical behavior from a worldly or conventional perspective	31—40
V	Repentance Pratikramaṇa: the ritual of looking back and repenting for past transgressions	40—46
VI	Renunciation Pratyâkhyâna: the formal vow to abstain from future spiritual errors	46—50
VII	Confession Álochanâ: the self-critical admission of faults to a spiritual guide	50—52
VIII	Expiation Práyaschitta: acts of penance or purification to offset karmic debt	53—56
IX	Supreme Equanimity Parama Samâdhi: the highest state of meditative stillness and balance	56—60
X	Supreme Devotion Parama Bhakti: the highest form of spiritual devotion directed toward the liberated souls	60—62
XI	Real Independence Nishchaya Ávashyaka: essential spiritual duties performed from the perspective of the soul's absolute nature	62—68
XII	Pure Consciousness Shuddha Upayoga: the soul's focused application of its awareness in its purest form	68—78

PUBLISHER'S NOTE.

This note continues from the previous page where Ajit Prasada described his career shifts and the death of his friend Sir Moti Sagar.

Language fails me when I think of asking the indulgence of the expectant readers, and the learned translator and commentator of this work, to pardon the unpardonable delay in bringing out this book.

Unusual delays are always ascribable to unusual causes. I am not a publisher either by choice, or by profession. The responsibility has been forced upon me by circumstances; and nobody realizes more severely and sorely than I do, how very unfitted I am for the discharge of the duties expected of a publisher.

My explanation, good, bad, or indifferent, is that in March 1929 I accepted a Judgeship in the High Court at Bikaner, Rajputana, and it was only during the intervals of leisure that I could attend to the revision and proof-passing of Niyamsāra original: "Niyamsāra"; the title refers to "The Essence of the Rule," a classic work by the Jain monk Kundakunda.. I resigned the post on the 30th September 1930, returned to Lucknow in October, and in November Dr. Sir Moti Sagar, Kt., LL.D., who had been my intimate friend since early boyhood, suddenly died at Lahore, and having been invited to take up the legal work pending in his office I felt compelled to accept the task. The extremely complicated and highly responsible nature of the work left me little time for anything else. The holidays in this month have enabled me to return to Ajitashram Ajitashram was the publisher's personal residence and spiritual retreat in Lucknow. and to pen this note.

For such mistakes, inaccuracies and omissions, also, as may have escaped detection I have to crave the indulgence of the generous readers, and the author.

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