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• Vedanāvāśca || 32 || • Viparitani manojñānāni || 33 || • Nidānani ca || 34 ||| • Tadaviratadeśaviratapramattasamiyatānām || 35 ||
2. To continuously worry and despair about release from a
painful thing or being is the second, 3. To continously worry and despair about regaining a lost
dear and desirable thing or being is the third, and 4. To continuously worry and despair about getting an
wanted and unavailable thing or being is the fourth.
These four types of Irtadhyānas occur only to the living-beings
in the spiritual stages of unrestraint, part-restraint, and negligent-restraint. (31-35)
Angeral Thoughts - • Hinisāanrtastevavisayasaniraksanebhyo Raudrama
viratadeśviratayoho || 36 || Costantly thinking of violence, lies, theft and preservation of
bodily pleasures is Raudradhyāna or angeral meditation. It happens to the unrestrined and the part-restrained only. (36)
Pious Concentration - . • Ajñāapāvavipākasanisthānavicayāya dharmama
pramattasya || 37 || Dharmadhyāna or Righteous meditation is to constantly
contemplate on the subjects of - the Lords Prophets' instructions, own imperfections and the ways to overcome them, correlation between the actions and the fruits thereof and the form of the universe. (37)
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