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Verse 48
मा मुज्झह मा रज्जह मा दुस्सह इट्टणि?अत्थेसु । थिरमिच्छह जदि चित्तं विचित्तझाणप्पसिद्धीए ॥
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गाथा भावार्थ - हे भव्यजीवो! यदि तुम अनेक प्रकार के ध्यान की सिद्धि के लिए चित्त को स्थिर करना चाहते हो तो इष्ट तथा अनिष्ट रूप जो इन्द्रियों के विषय हैं उनमें राग, द्वेष और मोह मत करो।
48. Obhavya (potential aspirant to liberation), if you wish to concentrate your mind on various kinds of meditation, get rid of delusion, and attachment and aversion in respect of desirable and undesirable objects.
EXPLANATORY NOTES
Acārya Umasvami's Tattvārthasūtra आर्तरौद्रधर्म्यशुक्लानि ॥
(9-28) The types of meditation are the painful or sorrowful (ārta dhyāna), the cruel (raudra dhyāna), the virtuous or righteous (dharmya dhyāna), and the pure (śukla dhyāna).
Ācārya Pujyapada's Sarvārthasiddhi 'Arta' is pain. That which arises from it is 'ārtam', painful. 'Raudra' means cruel temperament. That which arises from it is 'raudram', cruel. 'Dharma' has been defined as moral duties. That, which does not swerve from 'dharma'or which is associated with it, is 'dharmyam', virtuous or righteous. Pure
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