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CHAPTER THREE
apūrvakarana.' 186 Then wandering from interpretation of scripture to text and from text to interpretation, he went to the first pure meditation, nānātvaśrutavicāra.186 Then the Lord ascended to the ninth gunasthāna, named 'anivịttibādara,' 187 making no distinction in thought-activity. Then, by diminishing the passion greed, he went to the tenth guṇasthāna, named 'sükşmasamparāya.' 188 Possessing infinite power, able to destroy all the karma of the three worlds, from the destruction of delusion he arrived at the (twelfth) guṇasthāna,' kşīņamoha.' 189 At the last moment of the twelfth gunasthāna the Lord reached the second pure meditation, 'ekatvaśruta.' 190 By that meditation the Lord of the World reduced his mind containing the sense-objects of the three worlds, like reducing poison of a snake-bite which had penetrated the whole body like a charm. Just as a fire burns up and goes out when most of the fuel has been taken away and a little left, in the same way his mind became extinct. Then the Jina's fire of meditation blazing up, the destructive karmas 101 melted away completely like snow. On the eleventh of the bright half of Pauşa, when the moon was over Rohiņi and the Master was engaged in a two days' fast, his brilliant omniscience arose. The Lord of the World saw the sense
185 335. The Gunasthāna. 37, explains the name as arising from the attainment of unprecedented purity of soul. Karana is 'thought-activity.'
186 336. Meditation on different aspects of substance,' in which śrutajñāna' is employed and in which there is passing from one word, object, or activity to another (vicāra or vicāra). See I, n. 8.
187 337. Or anivịttibādarasamparāya. At this stage the three grosser forms of all the passions are suppressed, but fine greed remains. See App. I.
188 338. Destruction of fine passion.
189 339. As he is on the ksapakaśreni, he does not experience the eleventh.
190 340. Ekatvašrutāvicāra (the more complete form) is meditation on one modification only of substance. There is no vicāra. Srutajñāna is employed. See I, n. 8.
191 343. Ghātikarma. See I, n. 103 and App. II.
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