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Where and who should meditate? What should the posture be?
From the fourth light of Yoga Shastra, verses 121 to 123: How can those souls who are attached to the world and whose minds are not satisfied with the subjects experienced in countless births, be satisfied with the nectar of peace and attain the state of being free from attachment? How can those who are afraid of various fears, such as children, old people, etc., be made completely free from fear? And how can the nectar of the words of the great Lord Jinendra, who is free from all fear, be sprinkled on those beings who are facing death and are experiencing the pain of separation from their wealth, friends, wife, children, etc., and who are experiencing the pain of death? And how can they be made to attain a state of fearlessness from birth, old age, death, etc.? To do such a mind that counteracts suffering, to do direct counteraction, is not so; because the power to counteraction is not in every person; therefore, the awakening of such a counteraction mind is called compassion. If there is compassion for the impossible counteraction, then "After freeing all beings from the world, I will go to liberation"; saying this is not real compassion, but only a play of words. It is impossible for all worldly beings to do so. And it is also impossible to achieve liberation for oneself. One is the destruction of one's own world and then the liberation of all worldly beings is impossible. Therefore, this is to deceive the innocent. This is the compassion of the bound. Therefore, to give advice to do the above compassion, to give food, water, shelter, clothing, medicine, etc., according to the time and place, and to do good to the suffering is also compassion. ||120||
Now the nature of the intermediate feeling is told ||447||. Cruel deeds without hesitation, gods, gurus, and those who criticize, those who are self-praising, indifference towards them is called intermediate feeling. ||121|| Meaning: Indifference towards beings who do cruel deeds without hesitation, who criticize gods and gurus, and who are self-praising is called intermediate feeling. ||121|| Explanation: Those who eat inedible food, those who drink alcohol, etc., those who engage in sexual intercourse with another's wife, etc., those who commit cruel deeds such as killing a sage, killing a child, killing a woman, killing a fetus, etc., and those who are not afraid of sin are worthy of indifference. Many people, after committing sin many times, have attained remorse and emotion; they are not worthy of indifference. Therefore, it is said that those who follow the rituals according to the words of the great Tirthankaras who have thirty-four perfections, and those who give advice, and who criticize the guru Maharaj due to attachment, hatred, or ignorance, or due to being misled by someone else; even if they have such faults, if they have attained the state of detachment and see their faults; they are not worthy of indifference. Therefore, it is said that those who are faulty, who praise their own soul - who consider their own soul to be good, and just as the mudga-shaila stone cannot be melted even by the pushkaravarta cloud, so those who commit cruel deeds, who criticize gods and gurus, and who praise themselves are impossible to bring to the right path by giving advice, therefore, indifference towards them is called intermediate feeling. ||121||
The same is discussed which was said that four feelings help in religious meditation. ||448|| The great wise yogi, by meditating on his own soul with the four feelings, reconnects the broken chain of pure meditation. ||122|| Meaning: The great wise yogi, by meditating on his own soul with the four feelings, reconnects the broken chain of pure meditation. ||122|| The type of place needed for meditation is told. ||449|| The yogi who has mastered the postures should go to the birthplace, initiation, liberation, or nirvana land of the Tirthankaras for the perfection of meditation. If it is not possible to go there, then he should take refuge in a secluded place. ||123|| Meaning: One should meditate in the birthplace, initiation, perfect knowledge, and nirvana land of the great Tirthankara. ||123|| Explanation: One should meditate in the birthplace, initiation, perfect knowledge, and nirvana land of the great Tirthankara.