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## Chapter 5: The Five Practices
**157. Meaning:** Reading scriptures, explaining scriptures, inquiring about the meaning of scriptures, contemplating scriptures repeatedly, and reading the biographies of the sixty-three Tirthankaras - these are the five types of study. This should be done with reverence to the Jina and auspiciousness. || 393 ||
**"I am not worthy of the two types of meditation that are not auspicious. The two types of meditation that are auspicious, Dharma and Sukla, are to be known." || 394 ||**
**Meaning:** The two meditations, Ārta and Raudra, are inauspicious and lead to suffering in hell, etc. The two meditations, Dharma and Sukla, are auspicious and lead to liberation and other happiness. This should be known. || 394 ||
**Further, the nature of these four is described:**
**"In the case of unpleasant objects, the separation of desired objects, the hindrance of endurance, and the desire for worldly pleasures, the meditation accompanied by passions is called Ārta in brief." || 395 ||**
**Meaning:** When there is contact with unpleasant things like fever, pain, enemies, etc., when there is loss of loved ones like children, parents, disciples, etc., when there is hindrance from endurance like hunger, etc., and when there is a desire for worldly pleasures related to the afterlife, the mental distress that arises with passions is called Ārta meditation in brief. || 395 ||
**"In the protection of the essence of the self, and in the beginning of the six conducts..."**