Book Title: Tattvartha Sutra
Author(s): Sukhlal Sanghavi, K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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________________ CHAPTER NINE 335 is dharmopadeśa; alternatively, to preach things religious--that is dharmopadeśa. 25. The Sub-types of Vyutsarga : To renounce bāhyopādhi or the alien belongings of an external type and ābhyantaropādhi or the alien belongings of an internal type—these are the two sub-types of vyutsarga. 26. Really speaking, renunciation of the form of a cessation of the feelings of land 'my' is but one; yet since the things to be renounced are of two kinds—viz. external and internal—the vyutsarga or renounciation related to them too is said to be of two kinds; they are as follows : (1) To set aside the feeling of ownership in relation to the external things like money, corn, house, field etc.--that is vyutsarga related to bāhyopādhi or the alien belonging of an external type. (2) To set aside the feeling of ownership in relation to one's own body, as also to give up absorption in the mental perturbances born of kasāyas—that is vyutsarga related to ābhyantaropādhi or the alien belongings of an internal type. 26. An Account of dhyāna or Mental Concentration : Fixing the attention of mind on some one object on the part of a person possessing a superior type of bonestructure—that is dhyāna. 27. It lasts upto one muhūrta—that is, it lasts for less than one muhūrta. 28. 1. According to Bhāsya two types of Dhyāna are mentioned here in this aphorism-Ekāgracintā and Nirodha. But it seems that no other commentator took notice of this. So we also have followed here the old commentators. As for the fact that these two types are really intended by the author, see Cūrni on Daśavaikālika by Agastya, page 16, published by Prakrit Text Society and also see an article by D. Malvania in Vidya (Gujarat University), Vol. XV, No. 2, August, 1972, p. 61. Jain Education International For Personal & Private Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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