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(4) Nidāna: that means a painful fear regarding materialistic pleasures. In Raudradhyāna:(four types- Himsānubandhi, Mrşānu-bandhi, Steyānubandhi and Sarrakṣaṇānubandhi). Raudradhyāna means carrying out cruel contemplations on violence, falsehood, stealing, robbery and such ignoble things. A śrāvaka should try to avoid Artradhyāna and Raudradhyāna. The auspicious meditations are of two kinds (1) Dharma-dhyāna; (2) Sukladhyāna, which a śrāvaka should follow. (1) Dharmadhyāna is of four kinds namely- Ajñā-vicaya, Apāyavicaya, Vipāka-vicaya and Sansthāna-vicaya. (1) Ājñā-vicaya: "The commands of the Jina and the words of the Jina are extraordinary and beneficial to all jīvās" this kind of thinking. (2) Apāya-vicaya: Terrible calamities can result from attachment, hatred, indifference, ignorance and vowlessness"; thinking of these things. (3) Vipāka-vicaya: "Happiness and sorrow are the result of the Vipaka or the ripening of our noble and ignoble karmas" thinking thus, (4) Samsthāna-vicaya: Meditating with concentration on the 14 Rājalokas comprising the upper, the lower and the middle worlds. (II) Šukladhyāna: The four kinds of Sukladhyāna: (1) Pythaktva-vitarka-savicāra: Prthaktva = means differencesmeditating on the various substances and their mental differences, vitarka = means 14 Purvās or Śrutas, savicāra= contemplation on minute-minute activities of substances, sounds and the three yogas. The Sukladhyāna comprises these three contemplations. (2) Ekatva-vitarka-savicāra : Ekatva = not mutual but depending only on one substance, avicāra free from what is said already. These two kinds of meditations were carried out by masters of Āgamas. (3) Sükşma-kriya-apratipati: This is a spiritual reaction born out of subtle yoga of the body at the time of the jiva reaching mokṣa which
