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think that attachment hampers spiritual progress. This kind of meditation gives us supreme felicity.
(7) Bhavavichaya : Oh ! how full of anguish this Samsar is ! I have to be born again and again in samsar to experience the effects of my Karmas. How many times should I come out of my mother's womb which is unclean like the pot in a Persian wheel. Nobody can help me in my distress when I have to experience the painful effects of my Karmas. In the same manner, even the relationships in samsar are strange. Mother becomes wife; wife becomes mother. I denounce this kind of aimless, endless, wandering through Samsar". This kind of meditation creates noble propensities and contemplations about Samsar.
(8) Samsthanavichayu : This means meditating on the organisation of 14 Rajaloks. The nether world is kept inverted like a large vessel; the middle world is like a vessel. The upper world is like an inverted hollow of a receptacle. The nether hollow contains the seven hells abounding in the lowest kind of creatures, experiencing the bitterest kind of torments. In the middle world, there are countless islands and oceans, illustrated by the principle. “Mastya galagal”. Might is right here. The buffalo belongs to one who has a whip. The upper world contains many structures of auspicious pudgals. We have to think of these things and about all, permanent and changing things in this universe. This kind of meditation prevents the distraction of mind and helps concentration.
(9) Ajnavichay: This means thinking thus : "Oh; though in the samsar we have the cause, the examples, logic etc. we do not have such intelligence. Therefore, it is difficult for us to see personally, and to understand the bondage of Karma connected with the soul. Dharma etc. are metaphysical concepts; so it is extremely difficult to understand and visualize them. This can be known with the help of a spiritual well-wisher. The Vitrag Sarvajna has thrown light on this. He had no need to utter lies; therefore his utterances are absolutely true.
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