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NIRJARAOR DISSIPATION.
real self, but constant thinking of
the not-self enfetters the self. (c) Vipäka vichaya—the belief that from
the ontological point of view, though the self is a positive entity all pure and free, but viewed from the phenomenal stand point, it appears to be otherwise owing to the eight kinds of karma loaded with which the jiva passes through
births and deaths. (d) Samsthan vichaya-mental ideation or
picturing in the mind of the fourteen worlds as well as the nature of the constituent elements of the same
as taught in the Jain philosophy. (4) Lastly comes the Sukla dhyana. Sukla lit. means white which is but a symbolic representation of purity when it follows that Sukla dhyan is nothing else than thinking of the soul in all its purity i.e. to be absorbed in the meditation of the transendental nature of our inward self as constitutionally free and potentially divine. Such being the import as understood by Sukla dhyana it expresses in four forms viz :
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