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-584 ] THE DOOR OF DISQUISITION, CALLED NIKKHEVA
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(1) àa of determinate knowledge; (2) ża of intuition;
(3) aa of correct conduct. This is (aa as essence, which is) auspicious.
579. Then what is (aa as essence, which is) inauspicious ? (Aa as essence, which is) inauspicious is stated to be fourfold, viz.
(1) ia of anger; (2) ãa of pride; (3) ãa of deceit;
(4) àa of greed. This is (āa as essence, which is) inauspicious. This is aa as essence, without scriptural knowledge. This is aa as essence. This is aya (sic).'
580. Then what is jhavaņā (eradication) ?? Jhavaņā is stated to be fourfold, viz.
(1) jhavana as name; (2) jhavanā as arbitrary attribution; (3) jhavaņā as substance-potential;
(4) jhavana as essence. 581. (Jhavanà as) name and arbitrary attribution (are as) were described previously. (Vide sutta No. 10-12).
582. Then what is jhavaņā as substance-potential ? Jhavaņā as substance-potential is stated to be twofold, viz.
(a) with scriptural knowledge; and
(b) without scriptural knowledge. 583. Then what is jhavana as substance.potential, with scriptural knowledge ? Jhavana as substance-potential, with scriptural knowledge, is concerned with a person by whom 'jhavaņā' treatise has been studied, retained (in mind), controlled, measured, controlled perfectly, the rest is to be spoken of just as in the case of ajjhayara as substance-potential (vide sutta No. 539) up to... This is jhavana as substance-potential, with scriptural knowledge.
584. Then what is jhavanā as substance-potential, without scriptura! knowledge ? Jhavana as substance-potential, without scriptural knowledge, is stated to be threefold, viz.
(i) jhavanā as substance-potential (namely) body of the
knower;
1. Vide supra, sutta No. 558. 2. Vide supra, sutta No. 535.
