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Chapter - Sutra 26-28 301 The ability to achieve is so minimal that it cannot be counted.
5: Generally, the flow of knowledge, which holds onto one subject for a moment, another for another moment, and a third for yet another moment, is unstable like a flame of a lamp fluttering in varying winds. Such a flow of knowledge – to firmly establish that thought in one desired subject by specially striving to detach it from all other subjects, that is, to prevent the flow of knowledge from moving towards multiple subjects and to make it single-focused, is what “meditation” is. This form of meditation is apprehensible only in the state of omniscience, thus such meditation exists only up to the eleventh stage of spiritual development. After attaining omniscience, that is acknowledged in the thirteenth and fourteenth stages, the nature of it is different. When the process of restraint of mental, verbal, and physical transactions begins at the end of the eleventh stage, after the restraint of gross physical transactions, during the existence of subtle physical transactions, a third type of meditation known as "subtle activity cessation" is considered. Additionally, in the fourteenth stage during the complete cessation of activity while reaching the state of non-attachment, the fourth type of meditation known as "complete cessation of activity" is acknowledged. In both of these types of meditation, since there is no mental activity in those states, it does not possess the quality of concentrated thought like the state of the sixth stage; therefore, to lessen meditation in both these states, apart from the well-known meaning stated in the sutra, the term meditation encompasses a broader meaning, which is that striving to merely halt physical activities is also regarded as meditation, and the removal of limitations of self-awareness.