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Ratnakarandaka-śrāvakācāra
pratyākhyāna, enables the householder's vows to be observed, but debars one from the mahāvratas of asceticism and the higher forms of meditation; and the mild one sañjvalana only stands in the way of pure Self-contemplation (sukla dhyāna). The destruction or subsidence of the first type leads to the acquisition of Right Faith; of the second, to the adoption of the householder's vows; of the third, to the observance of mahāvratas; and of the fourth, to śukla dhyāna, which is the cause of omniscience and nirvāņa. This verse refers to the subsidence of the pratyākhyāna type which reduces the intensity of passions to the samjualana degree. These, as the āchārya points out, are of such a mild type that often it is difficult to say whether they exist or not
Jain, Champat Rai (1917), “Ratnakarņda-śrāvakāchāra (or The Householder's Dharma)”,
p. 35-36.
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