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## The Seventh Chapter
**With Hindi Commentary**
**276**
**Commentary:** This sutra describes the second (ninth) and third (tenth) images. The second image is also observed for seven nights and seven days with the sixth penance, meaning it is observed with two fasts each. Like the first image, this one also involves spending time outside the city, performing prostrations, sitting in a long posture, or with the head and feet on the ground and the rest of the body raised, or in the utkutukasana posture, sitting with the feet flat on the ground. The main purpose of the second image is to achieve self-realization through meditation in these postures. This is how this image is worshipped.
The third image, also lasting seven days and seven nights, follows all the rules of the first image. Additionally, this image is worshipped with the eighth penance, the oil penance, but the penance is observed without water. In this image, one is instructed to perform kayotsarga, etc., in the godohanikasana, virasana, and amra-kubjasana postures.
If anyone is curious about the meaning of godohanikasana, virasana, and amra-kubjasana, it is explained as follows: "Godohanikasana - godohanikriyayav godohanika, godohanpravrittasyaiva agrapadatalaabhyam avasthanam kriyate ity arthah, tayavastayin iti bhavah." This means that just as one sits with the soles of the feet raised to milk a cow, similarly, sitting in that posture for meditation is called 'godohanikasana'. Virasana - "viraanam drudha-sanhananaanam, asanam avasthanam yatha bhavathi tatha. Simhasanaadhirudhasya simhasanaapanayaneyapyavichalaroopena bhumavavasthanam iti bhavah." This means that if a person is sitting on a chair and another person comes and removes the chair from under them, and the person sitting remains on the ground in the same unwavering posture, that is called 'virasana'. Amra-kubjasana - "amra-phalavad vakraakaraa sthitih amra-kubja-sanamuchyate." This means that sitting in a curved posture like an amra fruit is called amra-kubjasana.
Achieving a meditative state through these three postures is called the third bhikshu-pratima. According to the sutras, one should worship this image and achieve self-development.