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## The Nature of Shukla Dhyana
**Yoga Shastra, Eleventh Prakash, Verses 22-37**
**914.** The knowledge-obscuring, sight-obscuring, and delusion-causing karmas, along with the hindering karmas, are all destroyed simultaneously. **22.**
**Meaning:** The effect of Shukla Dhyana is the simultaneous destruction of the four karmas: knowledge-obscuring, sight-obscuring, delusion-causing, and hindering karmas. **22.**
**915.** This is called the fruit of the destruction of the destructive karmas. **915.**
**23.** Having attained the rare Kevala Jnana and Kevala Darshan, the yogi knows and sees the entire Lok and Alok as it is. **23.**
**Meaning:** After the destruction of the destructive karmas, the yogi, through Dhyana, attains the rare Kevala Jnana and Kevala Darshan, and thus knows and sees the entire Lok and Alok in their true form. **23.**
**916.** After the emergence of Kevala Jnana, the Tirthankara, the Supreme Being, speaks through the extraordinary twenty-four verses. **916.**
**24.** Then that Bhagavan, the omniscient, the all-seeing, the possessor of infinite qualities, wanders the earth, worshipped by gods, demons, humans, and serpents. **24.**
**917.** With the radiance of his speech, he awakens the lotus of the Bhavyas (those destined for liberation). He instantly eradicates the false nature of both substance and state. **25.**
**918.** Just by uttering his name, the suffering born from the endless cycle of existence, which has been going on since time immemorial, is completely destroyed for all Bhavyas. **26.**
**919.** Even crores of gods, humans, and others who come to worship him, are contained within a space of just one yojana due to his influence. **27.**
**920.** Gods, humans, animals, and others understand his words, which convey the teachings of Dharma, in their own respective languages. **28.**
**921.** Hundreds of severe diseases are pacified by his influence, just as the heat of the earth is calmed by the rising moon. **29.**
**922.** Epidemics, famine, excessive rain, drought, war, and enmity do not exist where he resides, just as darkness disappears with the thousand rays of the sun. **30.**
**Meaning:** After attaining Kevala Jnana, the Arhant Bhagavan, the supreme among gods, omniscient, all-seeing, and a repository of infinite qualities, wanders the earth, worshipped by numerous gods, demons, serpent-kings, and others. While wandering, Bhagavan, through his speech, which is like the moonlight, awakens the Bhavyas, who are like blooming lotuses. He instantly eradicates the darkness of their false nature, both in substance and state. Just by uttering his name, the suffering of all Bhavyas, born from the endless cycle of existence since time immemorial, is destroyed forever. And those who come to worship him, crores of gods, humans, and animals, are contained within a space of just one yojana due to his influence. They understand his words, which convey the teachings of Dharma, in their own respective languages. They understand it as if he is speaking in their own language. Wherever Bhagavan wanders, in that area, for hundreds of yojanas in all directions, his influence pacifies all major diseases, just as the heat of the earth is calmed by the rising moon. Just as darkness disappears with the rising sun, similarly, wherever Bhagavan resides, there are no epidemics, famine, excessive rain, drought, war, or enmity. **24-30.**
**923.** Around him, a radiant sphere, like the sun, appears, illuminating all directions. **31.**
**924.** The gods, who are devoted to the auspicious, cause the blooming lotuses to dance, swaying them with their hands. **32.**
**925.** The wind blows favorably, birds circle him, trees bow down, and even thorns turn their heads downwards. **33.**
**926.** The Ashoka tree, with its red leaves and fragrant flowers, seems to be praising him with the buzzing of bees, like a natural hymn. **34.**
**927.** All six seasons simultaneously attend upon him, as if to perform penance, with the help of Cupid. **35.**
**928.** A thunderous drum resounds in the sky before him, announcing, as it were, the auspicious journey to Nirvana. **36.**
**929.** All five senses become instantly delightful in his presence. Who does not attain the highest excellence of qualities, when they are in the presence of such great beings? **37.**