Tattvartha Sutra

SR No.: 006796
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sukhlal Sanghavi, K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 596
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth
File Size: 10 MB

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CHAPTER NINE
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An Account of śukla-dhyāna :
The first two śukla-dhyānas are possible in the gunasthānas upśāntamoha and kşīņamoha; and both these sukladhyānas are to be performed only by one versed in the Pūrvatexts. 39.
: The last two śukla-dhyānas are to be performed by a kevalin or omniscient. 40.
Prthaktvavitarka, ekatvavitarka, sūksmakriyāpratipāting vyuparatakriyānivítti—these are the four śukla-dhyānas. 41.
These sukla-dhyānas are respectively performed by one possessed of all the three yogas, by one possessed of any of three yogas, by one possessed of the bodily yoga, by one possessed of no yoga whatsoever. 42.
The first two have got a common seat and both have to do with vitarka. 43.
Of these the second is avicāra-devoid of vicāra—that is, the first of them is possessed of vicāra. 44.
By vitarka is meant śruta or a scriptural text. 45.
By vicāra is meant a transition from one to another object, word or yoga. 46.
In the present account three topics connected with śukladhyāna have been taken up-viz. the persons authorized to perform it, its types, its nature.
1. The wording pūrvavidaḥ is a part of the present aphorism and not a separate aphorism—this is what the commentator on the Bhasya informs us. The Digambara tradition too does not read this part as a separate aphorism. Hence it is that the same practice is followed by us as well. But a reading of the Bhāsya makes it clear that pūrvavidaḥ is by itself a separate aphorism:
2. At this place the reading avīcāra too is to be met with quite frequently. However, with a view to maintaining uniformity between the word occurring in the aphorism and that used by us in our comments a short vi has been preferred here.