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**Meditation**
Meditation is the state of the soul being absorbed in its own nature, detached from external objects. **Vyuutsarga** is a specific type of **utsarga**. Acharya Akalank'05 defines **vyuutsarga** as the state of being free from attachment, non-attachment, fearlessness, and the abandonment of the desire for life. **Vyuutsarga** is the method of surrendering oneself to self-realization. There are four types of **vyuutsarga**: **ganavyuutsarga**, **sharirvayuutsarga**, **upadhivyuutsarga**, and **bhaktapanavyuutsarga**. 06 **Sharirvayuutsarga** is also known as **kayoutsarga**. Bhagwan Mahavira called the seeker "**abhikkhanam kaoussagkari**" - one who repeatedly performs **kayoutsarga**. The seeker who becomes proficient in **kayoutsarga** becomes proficient in all **vyuutsarga** austerities. The scriptures have highlighted the nature of Jain austerities through external and internal austerities. Thus, the sixth **samavay** discusses various topics.
**Seventh Samavay: An Analysis**
The seventh **samavay** discusses seven types of fear, seven types of **samudghat**, Bhagwan Mahavira's seven-hand-high body, seven **vardhadhar** mountains in Jambudvipa, seven islands, seven karmas causing pain in the twelfth **gunasthan**, seven stars and constellations of Magha, Krittika, etc. It mentions seven **palyopam** and seven **sagaropama** states of narakas and devas. It first describes seven fears: **ihlokabhay**, **paralokabhay**, **adanabhay**, **akasmatbhay**, **ajivicabhay**, **maranabhay**, and **ashlokabhay**. In the past, fear of heterodox beings was greater. But today, scientific villains have instilled so much fear in the human mind that even great national leaders' hearts are pounding with fear of when the atomic bomb, hydrogen bomb will explode, or when World War III will break out! Just as the Jain Agam literature mentions **bhayasthan**, Buddhist literature also mentions **bhayasthan**. 07 There, they describe various types of fear: fear of caste-birth, old age, disease, death, fire, water, king, thief, **atmanuvaad** - the thought of one's own misconduct, **paranuvaadabhay** - the fear that others will call me a wrongdoer, etc. Thus, the seventh **samavay** describes this.
**Eighth Samavay: An Analysis**
The eighth **samavay** discusses eight **madasthan**, eight **pravachanamata**, eight **yojan** high **chaitavriksh** of **vanavyantar** devas, etc., eight times of **kevali samudghat**, eight **ganadhar** of Bhagwan Parshva, eight constellations of the moon, eight **palyopam** and **sagaropama** states of narakas and devas, and those who attain liberation through eight **bhav**.
First, it describes **jatimand**, **kulmand**, etc. **mad**. Like **samayavang**, **sthanaang**108 also mentions eight **mad**. **Aavashyakasutra** advises the seeker to be free from these eight **mad**. **Sutrakritang**09 clearly instructs that ego makes a person disrespect others, causing him to wander in the world. Bhagwan Mahavira's soul had **jati** and **kul** **mad** in the **marichi** **bhav**, resulting in his birth in the womb of Devananda. Therefore, one should avoid **madasthan**. **Anguttaranikaya**110 mentions three types of **mad**.105. **Tattvarthrajavartika**, 9/26/10 106. **Bhagavati** 25/7 107. **Anguttaranikaya** 4/119/5-7 108. **Sthanaang** sth. 8 109. **Sutrakritang**-1/2/1-2 110. **Anguttaranikaya**-3/39
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