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## Chapter Fifty-Six
**52.** The tenfold Dharma-Dhyana, situated in the alternative of time and feeling, is to be contemplated by those devoted to Dhyana, as it yields the fruits of heaven and liberation.
**53.** That which is connected with purity is called white Dhyana. The absence of faults, etc., is purity. This is of two kinds, white and supremely white, and both white and supremely white are considered to have two subdivisions each.
**54.** The two subdivisions of white Dhyana are separate contemplation and contemplation of oneness, while the two subdivisions of supremely white Dhyana are subtle action, contemplation, and cessation of action, contemplation.
**55.** The characteristic of white Dhyana is of two kinds, external and internal. The external characteristic is the cessation of yawning, stretching, etc., in a person whose breathing is either imperceptible or ceased.
**56.** That which is self-perceived and inferred by others is the internal characteristic. The internal characteristic of both white and supremely white Dhyana is explained further.
**57.** Separateness or diversity is called distinctness. The faultless twelve-limbed knowledge of scripture is called contemplation.
**58.** The gradual transition of meaning, expression, and yoga is called contemplation. The object of contemplation is the meaning, the word that expresses it is the expression, and the yoga is the characteristic of speech, etc.
**59.** The contemplation of distinctness is the first white Dhyana, in which there is a gradual transformation of contemplation in meaning, etc.
**60.** Just as a sage, with a mind free from distraction, contemplates a single atom of substance or feeling, so too, a person, with a mind free from distraction, contemplates a single atom of substance or feeling.
**63.** Just as a very sharp weapon gradually cuts a tree, so too, a person, by gradually reducing the velocity of purity, brings about the cessation or destruction of the karmas that cause delusion.
**Explanation:** Here, the excellence of Dharma-Dhyana is described in the seventh, non-negligent, stage of the qualities, but generally, it occurs from the fourth to the seventh stage of the qualities and is the direct cause of heaven and the indirect cause of liberation.
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**Note:** The translation preserves the Jain terms as requested. The numbers in the text refer to the verse numbers in the original text.