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Verse 97
adoration, he controls his mind, speech, and body, and thus prepares himself for accomplishing concentration of mind (dhyāna), stepping-stone for becoming the pure-soul (paramātmā). He performs adoration of the Supreme Beings through thoughtactivity (bhava-pūjā) and not through material-things (dravyapūjā); adoration through material-things (dravya-pūjā) involves worldly-activity (arambha) that the ascetic must avoid. The ascetic is ever engaged in study (svadhyaya) and concentration (dhyāna). Study (svadhyaya) engenders knowledge (jñāna), and steadiness of knowledge is concentration (dhyāna). Steadiness of concentration (dhyāna), when directed towards the Self, is soul-meditation (samadhi). Soul-meditation (samadhi) is the highest goal that the ascetic aims at. Soul-meditation (samadhi) bestows on him whatever he wishes to attain.
Excerpted and translated into English from: "Pandita Asadhara's Dharmamṛta-Anagara", p. 650.
Acārya Samantabhadra's Svayambhūstotra:
चन्द्रप्रभं चन्द्रमरीचिगौरं चन्द्रं द्वितीयं जगतीव कान्तम् । वन्देऽभिवन्द्यं महतामृषीन्द्रं जिनं जितस्वान्तकषायबन्धम् ॥ (८-१-३६)
With complexion bright as the rays of the moon, you had radiated knowledge like another moon. You are worshipped by the eminent beings; you are the Lord of the learned ascetics; and you had conquered all your karmas and internal passions. I bow to you, O Lord Candraprabha, the possessor of the moonlike splendour.
त्वमुत्तमज्योतिरजः क्व निर्वृतः क्व ते परे बुद्धिलवोद्धवक्षताः । ततः स्वनिःश्रेयसभावनापरैर्बुधप्रवेकैर्जिन शीतलेड्यसे ॥
(१०-५-५०)
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