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kalan mana-vavara-kāya-jogé vatsamāņāņam savvalvé savva jivāņam savvabhāvé jājamāņé pásamāņè viharai 121
120 With excellent knowledge, with excellent apprehension with excellent conduct, with faultless lodgings ( free from females, eunuchs etc ), with blameless wanderings, ( over distant lands ), with excellent uprightness, with excellent activity (as he had no hag and baggage, and as he had no regard for eating delicious savouries, for wealth, and for comfort to his body ), with excellent patience ( as he was destitute of anger etc ), with excellent seif-restraint (over mind, speech, and bodv), with excellent contentment and with the excellent path of Final Emancipation (which is the accumulated reward of Truth, Self-restraint, Penance and Virtuous conduct,) the Venerablo Bhagavān passed twelve years meditating on us own
self
During the middle of the thirteenth year, in the second month of Suniner, in the fourth fornight, in the light-half of Vaisakha, on the tenth day of Vai ākha Sud, when the shadow had turned towards the East, and when the last porisî (quarter portion of the day ) had actually occurred, on the day called Suvrata, in the Muhurta called Vijaya, outside the town Jrimbhikagruna, on the bank of the river Rijuvālukā, not far from an old temple of a Vyantara ), in the field of a house-holder named Svāmika, unde a Saia tree, the Venerable One, sitting in a posture suitable for cw-milking, exposing himself to the heat of the Sun, after tasting for two days and a halt without drinking water, whe: the Moon was in conjunction with the constellation Hatthuttara (the constellatior whose next 15 Hasta, namely Uttarăphàlaguri; being engaged 111 - Sukla dhyāna ( in the first two limbs of śukla
In Sukla ithjūne, the aspirant first learns to steady his thoughts on his own spirit, though he is as yet unable to stop the changing of the son or the shifting of contemplative impulse between the object of thought and it verbal sign or mark Sukla dhyāra is of four kids - - V12 1 Prithaktva vitarka sa-vicăra 2. Ekatva vitarka a vicara 3 Suksma kiyā a-pratipāti 4 Ucchinna
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