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## **Dimadrusti: Definition of Vedya Pada, Nari Nida (283)**
**The definition of Vedya Pada is given in Nari Nida (283) where the initial cause of Nida is explained, and the woman, etc., are considered Vedya.**
**The definition is as follows:**
**73. Meaning:** Where the woman, etc., are Vedya - the object of medicine, pure according to the scriptures, and the mind is free from attachment, even then, it is perceived. (The connection to this verse is in the following verse.)
**Analysis:** The woman, etc., are Vedya, the cause of Nida, which is the cause of hell, heaven, etc., and is pure according to the scriptures. Even with a mind free from attachment, it is perceived - it is experienced correctly. This is called Vedya-Samvedya Pada, as explained in the following verse.
**Explanation:** Vedya means that which is worthy of being known, worthy of medicine, worthy of experience. It is the object of knowledge, which is grasped without any conceptualization, through the knowledge of the state of the object and the general nature of the object. The vision of the object, where the woman, etc., are experienced, is called Vedya.
**Here, Vedya refers to the object, such as the woman, etc., which is perceived, and which is caused by hell, heaven, etc.**
**The woman, etc., are Vedya objects, and their true nature, as it is, is experienced in a general way, according to the state of the object. This is Vedya.**
**Where the woman, etc., are Vedya - the object of experience, are perceived with a firm mind, according to their own decay and cessation, and are experienced correctly, as they are, this is called Vedya-Samvedya Pada, as explained in the following verse.**
**In other words, the true nature of the woman, etc., which is the cause of hell, etc., is perceived with a firm mind, which does not change in the three times. This perception, vision, and experience is Vedya-Samvedya Pada.**
**This firm mind is purified by the scriptures. Its impurities, such as the impurities of doubt and delusion, are washed away by the pure water of the scriptures.**
**This firm mind is free from attachment towards the woman, etc., and the nature of the object. This freedom from attachment is purified by the scriptures. In other words, after attaining the knowledge of Vedya-Samvedya Pada, this freedom from attachment becomes firm in the mind, and the woman, etc., are considered to be objects of renunciation, abandonment, and non-acceptance.**
**Due to this firm conviction, the correct...**