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SUBJUGATION OF THE WORLD
(OF PASSIONS)
123
१२५. आयतचक्खू लोग-विपस्सी लोगस्स अहो भागं जाणइ, उड्ढे
भाग जाणइ, तिरियं भागं जाणइ। 125. Āyatacakkhữ loga -vipassi logassa aho bhăgam jāņai
uddham bhägam jānai, tiriyam bhägam janai. 125. A person with 'wide-open eyes' meditates on the loka
(universe): He knows the lower portion, upper portion and middle portion of the loka (world).
ANNOTATION 125: The first medium of disinfecting the mind from voluptuousness is the meditation on loka (universe):
(1) The term loka (universe) means objects of pleasure.
One such object is the body. Therefore, the term loka here stands for 'body'. It has three sections,
viz.
(a) The lower one - below the navel; (b) The upper one above the navel; (c) The middle one the navel itself.
Put in another way, these are:
(a) The lower one -- the socket of the eyes, thyroid
cartilage, the middle of the face (cheekbones).
(b) The upper one -- knees, chest, forehead: these
are the protruding parts.
(c) The middle one -- the plain region.
A sadhaka should visualise that there are outlets everywhere viz. in the lower, the upper and the middle sections, (see, 4/118).
The meditational technique of visualising the body in its totality has been very significant. The present sutra is a pointer to it. The reader is referred to the sixth chapter of the Visuddhi magga, part I, pp. 160-75.
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