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Jnanarnava
''Jnanarnava'' (Sanskrit: ज्ञानार्णव, IAST:''Jñānārṇāva'', Meaning: Ocean of Wisdom on Meditation) is an important Jain text in Sanskrit on various topics useful to the mendicant but focuses primarily on meditation. Another name for this text is ''Yogapradipadhikara'' meaning, the Book that Illuminates Meditation.
==Subject matter==
''Jnanarnava'' is an important work in Jainism focusing on ''dhayana'' (meditation), its techniques and results. But it does not focus only on meditation, but is underpinned by Jain ontology and presents the Jain teachings in the light of Yoga. Subhacandra distinguishes three categories of ''dhyana''—good, evil and pure, in conformity with the three types of purposes, viz., the auspicious, the inauspicious and the transcendental. At another place, he classifies ''dhyana'' into ''prasasta'' (the psychical or psychological view) and ''aprasasta'' (practical or ethical view). In addition to this, he also elaborately expounds the process of ''dhyana'' by classifying meditation into ''pindastha'' (five forms of contemplation or dharmas), ''padastha'' (contemplation by means of certain Mantric syllables), ''rupastha'' (meditating on the divine qualities and the extraordinary powers of the Arihants) and ''rupatita'' (meditation on the attributes of Siddhatman).
Besides meditation, this books deals extensively on Jain ethics like Ahimsa, Satya etc. One of the most forceful statement on Ahimsa is found in the Jnanarnava: "Violence alone is the gateway to the miserable state, it is also the ocean of sin; it is itself a terrible hell and is surely the densest darkness"; and "If a person is accustomed to committing injury, then all his virtues like selflessness, greatness, desirelessness, penance, liberality, or munificence are worthless" (8.19-20).〔
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