Yogsar Prabhrat -12

Result of Dhyan :

332. Those great people  who are knowledgeable of the Bramha i.e. soul, who experience bliss only within their soul  have told the knowledge of the own pure soul or the Bramha and its experience as the main, blemish free benefit of Dhyan (meditation) second to none.

Comment:  Benefits of Dhyan (meditation) are – experience of the soul, samyak darshan, revelation of Moksha marga and dharma, samvar and nirjara, destruction of karmas, bliss in siddha state.

Motivation for Dhyan:

333. Therefore thinking bhavya jivas  should continuously make all efforts for the attainment of this extremely beneficial dhyan only without indulging in debates, doubts and arguments. 

Destruction of Ghati karmas:

334. Meditation specialist omniscient bhagwans who have separated ghati karma form dust from their own souls by means of meditation, have preached for the benefit of future Munirajs / Shravaks about dhyan which removes ignorance just like a pillar of lamp removes darkness.

Result of debates-arguments:

335. Those practitioners who are engaged in the debates-arguments, they definitely cannot reach to the objective of Moksha /Siddha state ; just as a careless slowpoke  person do not reach his destination.

Comment:  Hence it is better to keep away from debates/arguments. 

Real means for attaining Siddhahood:

336. Jinendras – Arihants have told the means for attainment of Param Bramha i.e. Moksha gati  as the Dhyan of pure soul free of karmas; just as walking on the right path is the means for reaching correct destination for an alert person.

Dhyan of pure soul destroys karmas:

337. Just as by chanting the right incantations the strong snake poison can be removed; in the same way the soul also can separate the collection of karmas of several births by means of dhyan of the own pure soul.

Comment:  It should be kept in mind that there is nimitta-naimittik relationship between karmas and soul. Actually jiva purifies himself by his own efforts.

Dhyan of pure soul provides non worldly benefits:

338.  The Chintamani jewel is capable of granting anticipated objects while Kalpa Vriksha grants the objects imagined; but dhyan of the own pure soul  grants the unanticipated and unimagined benefits also.

Dhyan of pure soul destroys Kama deva:

339. The dhyan of the pure soul which leads to abolition of birth, death, disease and old age-  it does not need to carry out any effort for destruction of Kama Deva (sensual desires)- since it is automatically achieved.

Comment:  Non generation of corrupted bhavas itself is termed as destruction of sensual desires.

Debates-arguments cause darkness of knowledge:

340. Therefore discarding all debates-arguments the pure nature of soul should be contemplated upon. Without destruction of darkness (of debates etc.) the knowledge does not engage in the subject (of own pure soul).

Comment:  Even though the debates-arguments may be punya form but they keep jiva away from experiencing the soul by means of dhyan hence it is advised to be discarded.

Respect for right means is necessary:

341. Since the objective is achieved by  the right means, the wise people should give due respect to the right means.

Contemplation of soul only is the means:

342. There is no means other than contemplation of pure soul for attainment of highest state (Siddha) objective. For those jivas who have been bitten by the Moha form snakes or afflicted by Moha form elephants, this means is inaccessible. 

Comment:  In absence of manifestations in the form of Moha and other passions the contemplation is fruitful and beneficial.

External means for contemplation of soul:

343. For contemplation of own pure soul, the enthusiasm, resolve, patience, contentedness, knowledge of the tatvas, renunciation of worldly contacts, these six constitute the external means.

Comment:  These six means have been stated in the order of importance.

Internal means for contemplation of soul:

344. By means of scriptures, inference and practice of meditation- with these three types of internal means the meditator purifies the intelligence and attains pure dhyan.

Comment:  Scriptures provide means to know the Jiva etc. dravya. With logic and inference one learns and understands it. With meditation one experiences and purifies it.

Highest benefit of intelligence:

345. The highest benefit of intelligence should be known as  immersion within own soul. If in spite of being intelligent he does not immerse within his own soul  then the knowledge of all the scriptures has been declared as ‘world’ by the great wise ones.

Comment:  Knowing the soul alone is the objective and knowledge of all others is ‘world’ which is a waste.

World of the intellectuals:

346. Those people are totally ignorant since their world is wife-children-other dravyas etc. and those wise ones who know the scriptures but have no knowledge of Adhyatma ( experience of the soul); scriptures are their world. 

Comment:  Learning scriptures cannot be endless. It has to be applied into Adhyatma.

Motivation for harvesting in dhyan:

347. In spite of taking birth as human being in Karma Bhoomi and benefiting with the seed of quality knowledge, those people who do not engage in the harvesting of great dhyan , they are ignorant only.

Condemnation of the darkness of Moha:

348. Desire for eating the bait in the tackle gives rise to misery for the fishes; in the same way people  discard excellent dhyan in favor of sensual pleasures due to Moha; that moha form darkness be damned which prevents vision of hidden misery.

Comment:  The author has expressed his helplessness and sorrow on seeing the state of the world.

Form of people afflicted with Moha:

349. Those who do not know their own soul substance, who are blind in identifying their own good or bad and are smart  in faulty conduct; those with a vision of present enjoyments only-  attain misery in the end.

Jiva with Moha does not have detachment:

350. The Jivas are engulfed with Moha, in spite of witnessing the mental sufferings, undergoing different diseases, birth, death, old age, bereavement etc. miseries in the world, do not get detached – What an  extraordinary nature of Moha!

Example of manifestation under influence of Mithyatva:

351. Those who are deluded ignorant, they consider improper deeds to be proper and proper deeds to be improper and unhappiness to be happiness; just as a person afflicted with severe itching believes itching to be good and satisfying whereas it is actually cause for misery.

Comment:  Truly Mithyatva causes delusion and wrong is believed as right and even suffering is believed as pleasure.

Meditation though listening of Tatva:

352. Just as with the non-usage of saline water and with the usage of sweet water, the seed lying in the field produces good crop; in the same way with the listening of descriptions of Tatvas etc. (scriptures) quality meditation is attained.

Comment:  Meditation  requires discarding of bad company and listening of right preachment which leads to subsidence of the  grip of Mithyatva and awakening of self realisation.

Motivation for listening to Tatva:

353. For the wise people, the desire for indulgence into sensual pleasures should always be renounced like the saline water. Paying attention to Tatvas etc. is always worthwhile like the sweet water.

Form  of Sophism

354-355. Sophism blocks knowledge, destroys peace, harms belief and it is a mental disease which increases conceit and is an enemy of meditation in several ways.

 Therefore for the people desirous of Moksha, it is not worthwhile  to  apply their minds in sophism and instead they should apply it in contemplation of soul substance which serves as  an entry to the abode of the Siddhas by self realization.

Form of liberated Jiva:

356. Those who have highly pure with wise intent, for whom the permanent paramatma alone is cherish-able in their qualities of belief, knowledge and conduct etc.; who contemplate upon the karma free pure soul with all their might i.e. they have devoted themselves towards that objective only; they renounce the miserable world and attaining Moksha of the form wherein one does not take birth again, they always stay blissful with infinite pleasures which are indescribable  beyond senses and are free from impurities.

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