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Asrava: How does it Flow
"Thus should the monk in his numerous states, having crossed the five streams, cross the sixth. Thus should the meditator who has not attained. union expel the abundant ideas of desire."
According to Asañga, the term "stream" stands for sensory activity; thus, the eye is a stream because viewing forms, and likewise for the remaining five senses; then the sixth stream is the mind (manas) because perceiving mental natures (dharma). The Pali commentator Buddhaghosa has a consistent remark. Furthermore, when the "body is cleansed"-i. e. there is "cathartic of body" (kaya-prakrabdhi), the mind may be "liberated" from lust (raga), hatred (dvesa), and delusion (moha). And thus one crosses those streams. As to attaining "union", as I understand Asanga's discussion, it is the union of "calming the mind" (samatha) and "discerning the real" (vipasyana, where the verse's "non-instigation" points to the "calming", and where the verse's "mindful" as the four "stations of mindfulness" (smṛtyupasthäna) points to the "discerning", with the verse's remaining words representing further clarifica
tions of this union.
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Since Asanga's Śravakabhumi statement about "restraint of sense organs" contains the verb form anusraveyus, it is well to present it now 27:
indriyasamvarah katamah / sa tam eva šilasamvaram niśrityärakṣitasmrtir bhavatinipaka-smṛtiḥ / smṛtyärakṣitamānasaḥ samavasthāvacārakaḥ sa cakşuşā rūpāņi dṛṣṭvā / na nimittagrāhi bhavati nanuvyanjanagrāhi yatodhikaranam asya papaka akusala dharmās cittam anusraveyus teṣām samvaraya pratipadyate rakṣati mana-indriyam sa śrotrena sabdan ghränena gandhän jihvaya rasän kayena sprastavyäni / manasä dharmän vijääya na nimittagrähi bhavati nānuvyanjanagrahi yatodhikaranam asya papakā akuśala dharmaś cittam anusraveyus teṣām samvaraya pratipadyate raksati mana-indriyam / mana-indriyena samvaram apadyate / ayam ucyata indriyasamvarah/
What is restraint of sense organs? When one has taken recourse to just the restraint of morality, be guards mindfulness. His mindfulness is prudent. His mind is guarded by mindfulness. He has the sphere of the even state. When he sees forms with the eye, he does not take hold of sign-sources or details by reason of which sinful, unvirtuous natures would flow (anusraveyus) after his mind. He acts in each case to restrain those. He guards his mind sense-organ. When he perceives sounds with his ear, odors with his nose, tastes. with his tongue, tangibles with his body, natures (dharma) with his mind, he does not take hold of sign-sources or details by reason of which sinful unvirtuous natures would flow after his mind. He acts in each case to restrain those. He guards his mind sense organ. The mind sense-organ exerts the restraint. This is called "restraint of sense organs."
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