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## Chapter Twenty-One: The Essence of Meditation
**505**
The disciples were overjoyed. Their bodies trembled with delight, and just as the lotus blossoms open when touched by the sun's rays, so too did their faces bloom with joy. (267)
Then, with their mouths filled with praise, these yogis, the foremost among yogis, turned their attention to the Lord of the Jina army, the Jina himself, the master of the fourfold army, or to the Acharya Jinasena, the disciple of Gautama Ganadhara. They offered their salutations and focused their minds to hear the Arhat Lakshmi, the embodiment of all knowledge, who is established in his own true nature. (268)
Thus ends the twenty-first chapter of the *Trishatilakṣaṇamahāpurāṇa*, composed by the venerable Jinasena Acharya, which describes the essence of meditation. (21)
**Notes:**
1. *Kiranasaṁyogāt*: due to the contact of the rays.
2. *Vā iva*: as if.
3. *Kṣaṇaparyantamityarthaḥ*: meaning for a moment.
4. *Jinaseṇācāryasvāminam, athavā jinasya senā jinaseṇā samavasaraṇasthabhavyasantatīstasyā adhīśvarastam*: the Acharya Jinasena, or the Jina army, the lineage of the worthy ones who reside in the assembly of the Jinas, and their lord.
5. *Avadhānayuktamakarṣaḥ*: they made their minds attentive.
6. *Jñānatejasaḥ*: the brilliance of knowledge.
7. *Svātma eva dhāma syānāṁ yasya tasya svāsvarūpādavasthitasyetiyarthaḥ*: meaning, he whose abode is his own self, he who is established in his own true nature.