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PURE CONCENTRATION
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of the fourth and fifth stages as well as by ascetics of the sixth and seventh stages.
The three kinds of meditation have been defined. The fourth one of pure concentration must be defined now. It is of four kinds as described subsequently. The next sutra indicates the lord of the first of these.
शुक्ले चाये पूर्वविदः Šukle cădye pūrvavidaḥ
(37) 37. The first two types of pure concentration are attained by the saints well-versed in the pūrvas.
Among the four kinds of pure concentration, the first two occur to the saints well-versed in the pūrvas, that is omniscients in the scriptures. By 'ca' the virtuous concentration also is included. "Detailed knowledge is ascertained from the commentary” Accordingly, virtuous concentration occurs before the self ascends the ladder of spiritual progress. When the saint ascends anyone of the two ladders (the subsidential or the destructive) the first two kinds of pure concentration arise.
In whom do the rest arise ?
परे केवलिनः Pare kevalinah
(38) 38. The last two arise in the omniscients.
The last two arise in the omniscients with and without activity, who have destroyed the entire knowledge-obscuring karmas.
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The types of pure concentration are mentioned in order. पृथक्त्वैकत्ववितर्कसूक्ष्मक्रियाप्रतिपातिव्यपरतक्रियानिवर्तीनि ॥ ३९ ॥ Prthaktvaikatvavitarkasūkşmakriyāpratipāti
vyuparata kriyānivartini 39. (The four types of pure concentration are) that of different, scriptural, shifting, that of the single scriptural, that of subtle activity and that of complete destruction of activity.
i Prthaktvavitarka, ekatvavitarka, suksmakriyā pratipāti and vyu paratakriyānivarti are the Sanskrit names of the four types of pure concentration.
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