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2] MRISHA: Lie or Untruth thought of mentally 3] CHORI : Stealing or Threft;
4] SAMRAKSHANANUBANDHI: Fears & Cruel Provoctactive thoughts
to overcome them.
Both these types of Dhyanas or Sinful, hell-providing, degrading ill plannings are, as mentioned earlier, highly deplorable and are to be given up.
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3) Now comes the classification of Dharma or Shubh
Dhyana, defined earlier :
1] AJNA: Orders or Commandments or Prescriptions of the Omniscient Arihantas to be followed with inner faith.
2] APAYA: Religious Practice craved at.
3] VIPAKATIYA: Thinking of the ripening of the Karmas and blaming none other than one's own self for the same.
4] SANSTHANA VICHAYA: Cencentration and contemplation uplifed from one's physique and Various parts of it.
4) Shukla Dhyana: It has two parts in two groups: a) 1] PRITHAKTVA VITARKA:
Realizing the separation of the Self.
b) 1] SAPRAVICHAR: With thoughts. 2] APRAVICHAR : Without thoughts.
2] EKATVA VITARKA: Thinking of lone aloofness of the Self from all.
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This Shukla (White) Dhyana or Shuddha (Pure) Dhyana is the highest form of Meditdtion as per Jainism. It has four Stages:
