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TATTVARTHA SUTRA : STOPPAGE AND SEPARATION: 153
• Upaśāntaksīnakasayavośca || 38 ||
This (pious) contemplation is possible by those at the spiritual stages of vigilant restraint, subdued delusion and overcome passions. (38)
Pure Concentration
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• Pare kevalinaḥ || 40 ||
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Śukle cãdye pūrvavidaḥ || 39 ||
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Tattryaikakayayogāyogānām || 42 ||
The first two types of Sukladyānās are attained by the 'Purvadhara 28 ascetics.
Prthaktvaikatvavitarkasūkṣmakriyāpratipātivyupa–
ratakriyanivrttīni || 41 ||
The latter two are attained by the omniscients only.
The four types of Sukladhyānas are -- Prthaktvavitarka (Subdivisional meditation based on scriptures), Ekatvavitarka (Unitary meditation based on scriptures), Sūksmakriyāprati— pātī (Subtle activity of respiration only - based meditation) and Vyuparatakriyānivṛtti (Ceased activity meditation).
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These four types of pure meditations are, respectively, attained by employing all three-yogas (body, mind and speech), one of the three yogas, the body yoga and none of the yogas. (39-42) Ekāśraye savitarke pūrve || 43 ||
• Avicāram dvitīyani || 44 ||
The first two types have a common seat (in the Purvadhara ascetics) and are based on the scriptural knowledge.
Out of these two, the second is intransient between the object, the script and the yoga while the first one so transits. (43-44)
28 Well versed in fourteen pre-canons.
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