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SIOSANIAJJAM: TAIAM AJJHAYANAM SHEETOSHNIYA: THIRD CHAPTER
COLD AND HOT
INTRODUCTION
The second chapter contains advice to win over passions. It is the favourable and unfavourable conditions that give birth to passions like attachment and aversion. Therefore this chapter contains the message to be equanimous in such conditions.
✦ The name of the third chapter is Sheetoshniya. Sheet means cold or favourable or pleasant and ushna means hot or unfavourable or unpleasant. Thus sheetoshniya means cold and hot. This chapter contains discussions about tolerating pleasant and unpleasant afflictions with equanimity. That is why it is titled Sheetoshniya.
✦ In the list of twenty two afflictions for an ascetic there are two pleasant afflictions-affliction by women and affliction through hospitality. The remaining twenty are believed to be unpleasant afflictions. (Acharanga Niryukti, verse 201) ✦ Sheet (favourable) here means bhavasheet or mentally favourable. This is a specific attitude of beings. Here four types of bhavasheet have been mentioned-(1) mild afflictions, (2) controlling stupor, (3) renunciation (renouncing acts like killing living beings and practicing seventeen types of discipline), and (4) pleasure (caused by precipitation of sata-vedaniya karma or the karma that causes feelings of pleasure).
It is mentioned that ushna (unfavourable) should be taken as bhava-ushna or mentally unfavourable. This too is a specific attitude of beings. The commentator (Niryukti) has mentioned eight types of bhava-ushna-(1) unfavourable afflictions with intense and intolerable consequences, (2) endeavour towards austerities, (3) passions like anger and conceit, (4) grief, (5) mental torture,
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