Path of Freedom [Vimuttimagga]

104 Vimuttimagga"As in a pool of water with a spring and into which no water flows fromthe four directions, nor rain descends, the water wells up cool and pure fromwithin, saturates the entire pool and over-flowing spreads afar, even so [419]joy and bliss, cool and pure, welling up from concentration saturates everypart of the body of a bhikkhu. Thus joy which is produceed fromconcentration saturates the body and the mind". 1A yogin entering the second meditation, jhdna, should consider his bodyin the light of this simile of the pool with water welling up from within. Theabsence of any stream flowing from any of the four directions is to be understoodas the stilling of initial and sustained application of thought. As thewater welling up from within fills the pool without causing waves to arise in it,[419] so joy and bliss springing from concentration fills the mental and bodilyfactors and there is no disturbance of mind. As water that is cold cools thebody, so joy and bliss born of concentration causes all the mental and bodilyfactors to be at ease.Thus is the reward of the practice of concentration: One is reborn in theAbode of Resplendence. There are three kinds of rewards pertaining to thethree divisions of the second meditaton, jhdna: lower, middling and higher.The yogin who practises the lower meditation, jhdna, will, after his death, bereborn in the Abode of Lesser Light. His life-span will be two aeons. 2 If hepractises the middling meditation, jhdna, he will, after his death, be reborn in theAbode of Measureless Light. His life-span will be four aeons. 3 If he practisesthe higher meditation, jhdna, he will, after his death, be reborn in the Abode ofResplendence and his life-span will be eight aeons. 4THE THIRD MEDITATION, JHANA/ consider the tribulations of the second meditation, jhdna.Now a yogin having practised the second meditation, jhdna, and acquiredfacility therein thinks: "The second meditation, jhdna, is coarse; the thirdmeditation, jhdna, is fine". Knowing the tribulations of the second medita-1. Chu Agon No. 98: M.I, 276—7; D.I, 74; A.III, 25—6: Seyyathd pi bhikkave udakarahadoubbhidodako tassa nev' assa puratthimaya disaya udakassa dyumukham na pacchimdyadisdya udakassa dyamukham na uttardya disaya udakassa dyamukham na dakkhindyadisaya udakassa dyamukham, devoca na kdlena kdlam sammddhdram anuppaveccheyya athakho tamhd ca udakarahadd sitd vdridhdrd ubbhijjitvd tarn eva udakarahadam sitena vdrindabhisandeyya parisandeyya paripureyya paripphareyya, ndssa kind sabbdvato udakarahadassasitena vdrind apphutam assa, evam eva kho bhikkhave bhikkhu imam eva kayamsamddhijena pitisukhena abhisandeti parisandeti paripureti, parippharati, ndssa kind sabbdvatokdyassa samddhijena pitisukhena apphutam hoti.2. Vbh. 424: Dutiyam jhdnam parittam bhdvetvd parittdbhdnam devdnam sahavyatamuppajjanti. Tesam kittakam dyuppamdnam ? Dve kappa.3. Ibid: Dutiyam jhdnam majjhimam bhdvetvd appamdndbhdnam devdnam sahavyatamuppajjanti. Tesam kittakam dyuppamdnam'} Cattdro kappa.4. Ibid: Dutiyam jhdnam panitam bhdvetvd dbhassardnam devdnam sahavyatam uppajjanti.Tesam kittakam dyuppamdnaml Attha kappd.