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## Ekavimsham Parva 483
**79.** Therefore, the monks should sleep in secluded places and reside in the forest. This is the common path for both Jinakalpī and Sthavirakalpī monks.
**80.** Although this common arrangement has been stated for the residence of monks, there are many wise and valiant monk-kings who are equanimous and wander in places filled with people, such as cities, and in empty (uninhabited) places, such as forests.
**81.** Similarly, for those wise and valiant monk-kings who desire to meditate, there is no fixed time, such as day, night, or twilight. That is, there is no rule for them regarding time, because meditation, which is like wealth, can be utilized at all times. In other words, meditation can be practiced at any time according to one's desire.
**82.** Because many monk-kings have attained Siddhi in the past, are attaining it now, and will continue to attain it in the future, all in all countries, at all times, and in all postures, there is no specific rule for meditation regarding country, time, or posture.
**83.** Thus, the state of the meditator has been described. Now, the characteristics of the meditator, the object of meditation (i.e., the thing to be meditated upon), meditation itself, and the fruit of meditation – these four things are to be described.
**84.** He who possesses a body as strong as a vajra, a bull, or a thunderbolt, who is extremely valiant in the practice of austerities, who has thoroughly studied many scriptures, who has eliminated the false meditations called Ārta and Raudra, who avoids inauspicious Leshyās, who contemplates the purity of Leshyās without distraction, who has attained enlightenment (i.e., who is extremely wise), who is a yogi, who is endowed with mental strength, who relies on the meaning of the scriptures, who is wise and valiant, and who has overcome all obstacles –
**(Three distinguishing features)**
**1.** Due to the cause. **2.** Secluded place. **3.** Place filled with people. **4.** Desire to meditate. **5.** That wealth. **6.** Because of that cause. **7.** Those who are endowed with understanding. **8.** The meaning is that they have become Siddha Parameṣṭhins. **9.** They will become Siddhas. **10.** There is no rule regarding that country, time, etc. **11.** Difference in posture. **12.** It is to be stated. **13.** Valiant in the group. Valiant in the group of monks. The meaning is that he is rich in knowledge. **14.** Reliance on the meaning of the scriptures.