________________ xxii Jaina Meditation passage : ayatacakkhu logavipassi, logassa ahobhagas janai, uddha bhaga janai, tiriyam bhagam janai, gadhie loe anupariyatamane, sandhi viditta, iha macciehim, esa vire pasamsie, je baddhe padimoyae, jaha anto taha bahim, jaha bahim taha anto, anto-anto pui-dehantarani pasai puhovi savantaim pandie padilehae.1 In this quotation, it is said that the wise man perceives the world with his mental eye wide open and with a penetrating insight. He perceives the interior world of passions and also the interior of the body with foul humours and streams of blood flowing all over it. Such vision produces a feeling of disgust toward the world. Commenting on this passage, the commentator Silarkacarya quotes a verse that bears a close resmblance to one quoted in the Visuddhimagga. Silamka's quotation runs as : yadi namasya kayasya yad antas tad bahir bhavet | dandam adaya loko'yam sunah kakams ca varayet // The corresponding verse in the Visuddhimagga is : sace imassa kayassa anto bahirako siya dandan nuna gahetvana kake sone nivaraye 1/2 If of this body inside were outside, We'd grasp a stick to keep off crows and dogs. These quotations clearly demonstrate the fact that there was an undercurrent of thought that stressed the necessity of the cultivation of vairagya (detachment and renunciation for the successful practice of meditation. 6. The Temptation of Supernatural Powers A very significant passage of the Ayaro, which appears isolated, virtually refers to a stage of the attainment of supernatural powers through meditation. This passage definitely echoes the contents of a sutra of the Yogadarsana of Patanjali. Both the texts are quoted here. The Ayaro passage runs as : sasaehim nimamtejja divvam mayam na saddahe tam padibujjha mahane savvam numam vidhuniya 1/8 1 Ayaro, I. 2.5.25-31. 2 Visuddhimagga, p. 161. 3 Ayaro, I. 8.8.24.
