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MISCELLANEOUS
Note: The Jaina tradition posits two kinds of freņi-ārohana (lit. stepping up a ladder). One consists in passing through the guņasthānas Eighth, Ninth and Teuth and then reaching the Eleventh; the other consists in passing through the gunasthānas Eighth, Ninth and Tenth and then reaching the Twelfth.
: One having reached the Eleventh gunasthāna is bound to suffer spiritual degeneration and return back to a lower gunasthāna (as to how much lower will differ from case to case); one having reached the Twelfth gunasthāna is bound to attain mokşa in this very life after having become omniscient in the Thirteenth gunasthāna and having undertaken in the Fourteenth gunasthāna the meditative trance involving a cessation of all mental, bodily and vocal operations. Obviously, Haribhadra is here referring to the second type of śreni-ārohaņa.
असंप्रज्ञात एषोऽपि समाधिर्गीयते परैः । निरुद्धाशेपवृत्त्यादि तत्स्वरूपानुवेधतः ॥४२१॥ asamprajñata eşo'pi samādhir giyale paraih /
niruddhāśeşavrtlyādi tatsvarūpānuvedhatah It is to this (i. e. to yoga arising in the wake of the attainment of omniscience) that the name asam prajñāta samadhi has been given by others (i. e. by Patañjali's followers), and this because it involves a renunciation of all operations etc. on the part of a soul and its assuming the form of the samadhi itself. .
Note: That at the time of asamprajñāta Samādhi the soul assumes the form of the. Samadhi itself is Patañjali's thesis. The commentator explains that in one type of asamprajñāla Samādhi a soul gives up just evil operations while in the other type it gives up all operations whatsoever. The explanation becomes necessary because an omniscient person is be:ug said to be the agent authorized to undertake this samādhi
ut an onniscient person who is occupying the Thirteenth gunasthāna (rather than the Fourteenth) does not give up all operations even if he does give up the evil ones.
धर्ममेघोऽमृतात्मा च भवशकशिवोदयः । सत्त्वानन्दः परश्चेति योज्योऽत्रैवार्थयोगतः ॥४२२॥ dharmamegho'mặtālmā ca bhavašakrasivodayah /
sattvānandaḥ paraś ceti yojyo'lraivārthayogataḥ 1/122|| - With these very species of yoga (i. e. with adhyālma etc. described above) are to be equated in a manner that befits the designation concerned--the states of : samüdhi which are given by others the names like dharmamegha, amţtālman, bhavašakrašivodaya, sattvānanda, para,
