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परमसमाधि अधिकार
9 - THE SUPREME MEDITATION
स्थायी सामायिक के लक्षण - The marks of the enduring equanimity - विरदो सव्वसावज्जे तिगुत्तो पिहिदिदिओ । तस्स सामाइगं ठाइ इदि केवलिसासणे ॥१२५॥ जो समस्त सावद्य (पाप-सहित कार्य) से विरत है, तीन गुप्ति वाला है तथा जिसने इन्द्रियों को निरुद्ध कर लिया है उसके सामायिक (समताभाव) स्थायी है, ऐसा केवली भगवान् के शासन में कहा है।
The Doctrine of Lord Jina has proclaimed that he, who is rid of all sinful (sāvadya) activity, endowed with the threefold control (gupti), and has confined the senses (indriya), attains enduring equanimity (sāmāyika or samatābhāva).
EXPLANATORY NOTE The preposition 'sam' means 'to become one'. For instance, ghee merges - becomes one - with the thing mixed. To merge or become one is 'samaya'. That, which has oneness as its object, is 'sāmāyika'. Thus, to become one with the selfis 'sāmāyika'.1
Equanimity (sāmāyika or samatābhāva) is to attain the disposition of calmness and composure (sāmya) by ridding the soul of attachment (rāga) and aversion (dvesa). Even the householder, practising equanimity (sāmāyika), is figuratively said to be the observer of great vows (mahāvrata):
Acārya Amrtacandra's Purusārthasiddhyupāya: सामायिकं श्रितानां समस्तसावद्ययोगपरिहारात् । भवति महाव्रतमेषामुदयेपि चरित्रमोहस्य ॥१५०॥
1- see Asādhara's Dharmāmrta Anagāra, verse 8-19, p. 568.
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