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Dhyāna is of four kinds viz 1. Ārtta Dhyana (evil sorrowful meditation about undesirable objects, separation from most beloved persons or objects etc ) 2 Raudra Dhyāna (cruel intentions of doing injury, killing etc ) 3. Dharma Dhsāna ( meditation ubout benevolent deeds, Universal Brother hood contemplation about soul etc) and 4. Sukla Dhyāna (constant meditation on the Most Excellent Bliss of Final Emanciption and the means of acquiring it ). Each of these is, again, of four varieties. Sukla Dhyana is of four kinds viz~1. Prithakatva vitarka sa-vicāra 2. Sukşma kriyā a-pratipāti, Only a Parvadhara (a Saint wellversed in four ten Pūrvas ) with his immense knowledge of the Jaina Siddhantas or a Kévalin ( an eminent soul with Kévala Jnāna [Perfect Knowldge ] is deservedly entitled to Sukla Dhyana.
A Purvadhara can have access to the first and the second variety i. e. to the Prithakatva vitarka savicāra and the Ekatva
and 4 Ucchinna kriyā a-nivarti. The primary form of self-contemplation is known as Prithakatva vitarka sa-vicāra and is the first limb of Sukla Dhyāna, W'hen further progress has been made and the mind is steadied in the contemplation of only one thing which may be the object, its states, or its verl mark and when there is no changing of yogas, the second limbal of Sukla Dhyana is accomplished which is termed Ekatva vitarka a-vicara. This very speedily leads to the destruction of what are known. inimical or obstructive Karmas and results in the acquisition of Omniscience full and complete. Therefore, words and images are no longer, needed to enjoy blissful nature of one's own spirif., though there still exists the slightest tinge of the activity of the body-yoga, in the feeling of pure self-produced joy Hence, is the third part of Sukla dhyāna called Sükşma-kriyā a-prapati with reference to the tinge lent by the activity of the body-yoga.
Finally, when complete separation between the Body and the Spirit is effected, the yoga comes to an end and the fully
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