Gyandhara 04

Author(s): Gunvant Barvalia
Publisher: Saurashtra Kesari Pranguru Jain Philosophical and Literary Research Centre

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dhyana:
"attam ruddam dhammam sukkam ca naive" (1463). Similar
four types are mentioned in Thanam (IV, 60)
The first two are inauspicious or aprasasta and therefore they do not form part of the subject matter of this thesis. The latter two are auspicious or prasasta. It is, therefore, said: "attaruddani vajjitta, jhaejjasusamahie / dhammasukkaim, jhanam tam tu buha vae || (Uttar. 30/35). A good monk should give up meditation due to anguish and cruelty. He should engage himself in the meditation on the nature of the real as well as pure meditation.
1.2 A person who is not omniscient (chadmastha) can have meditation in the form of concentration on one thing, which can last for less than 48 minutes (antarmuhurta). The omniscient (kevali) can have meditation in the form of control of yogika activities (ibid, v.3)
"egaggamanasamnivesanayaenam cittaniroham kavei (Uttar. XXIX, 26) By concentration of the mind, one can control the citta. The subject of meditation and reflection is also referred to in Prasam. In chapter XVII- Silangadhikara :
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A monk who has right faith and knowledge easily accomplishes eighteen thousand divisions of (code of) conduct, by detachment, austerity, mediation, reflection and necessary (auspicious) activies. (Prasam. p. 56 v. 243)
1.3. Sayala -viyappaham jo vilau-parama-samai bhanamti | Tena suhasuhua bhavada muni sayalavi mellanti ||(PP. II, 190) Dr. A.N. Upadhye has explained this doctrine of 'ParamaSamadhi' as 'The Great Meditation' as follows:
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