Spiritual Awakening and other Essays

Author(s): Kamalchand Sogani
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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2) The parting with of agreeable objects may also occasion discomposure of mind. To be overwhelmed by anxiety for restoring the loss is called the second type of Arta-dhyāna, namely, Ista-viyogaji.59
3) The constant occupation of mind to remove the distressing state of mind resulting from the diseased condition of the body is called the third of Arta-dhyana, namely, Vedanā-Janita.60
4) To yearn for agreeable pleasures and to contrive to defeat and slander the enemy constitute what is called as the fourth type of Arta-dhyāna, namely, Nidana-Janita.61 In other words, to make up one's mind for and to constantly dwell upon the acquisition of the objects of sensual pleasures is termed as the fourth type of Arta-dhyāna, namely, NidānaJanita.62
(b) Raudra-Dhyāna
Raudra-dhyāna has also been enumerated as of four
kinds.
1) To take delight in killing living beings, to be felicitous in hearing, seeing and reviving the oppression caused to sentient beings, to seek ill of others, to be envious of other man's prosperity and merits, to collect the implements of Himsā, to show kindness to cruel persons, to be revengeful, all these come within the purview of the first kind of Raudradhyāna, namely, Himsanandi Raudra-dhyāna. 63
2) The individual whose minds is permeated by falsehood, who designs to entangle the world in troubles by dint of propagating vicious doctrines, and writing unhealthy literature for the sake of his own pleasure, who amasses wealth by taking recourse to deceit and trickery, who contrives to show faults fraudulently in faultless persons in
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Spiritual Awakening (Samyagdarśana) and Other Essays