The Essence of JAIN MEDITATION

							The Essence of JAIN MEDITATION
By Puja Shree Chitrabhanuji

To free ourselves from the path and unhappiness. We cannot afford to waste time in negative thoughts and worry. We are born free and we must not make any cage for ourselves. The conditions which condition us were conditioned by us. We have created our own present and we are each moment creating the future. Not only our future life but the next moment of life. Our ego limits us. We want to become something and so we work and we DO become something. But without it we are everything. So because of ego, we are limited from everything to something. Unless you change your pattern of thinking, no outer change will help you or make you happy. The only way to change your pattern of thinking is through meditation. Life has some direction. It is pulsating with something alive, you can call it divinity, eternity, soul. When you realise this, all fear, the frightening voices, the mental projections disappear. Then you have inner illumination. That flame is love. Nothing gives more light than love. Life is measured in moments, not in years. One hundred years is a point in eternity. We are worried about how to live, but it will be over before we know. This human birth is the best opportunity. Really we are blessed. A guru is that person who helps you remove the darkness of ignorance in your life. It can be anyone; it has nothing to do with sex, colour, clothing, role or family relationship. We go to the outside guru in order to find our inner guru. So bring out your devotion to your inner guru. Think, ’I cannot afford to waste my day in emotional turmoil, sadness, pretension. I will be brave enough to face the day and use it well’. Ultimately the guru is he who ends up making you the guru. He is free. He remains free. He remains unnoticed. He is like an ice cube in a cooling drink. He cools your consciousness and then disappears.

“When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth and death. One we have experienced this eternal part in us, we can no longer doubt its existence. Meditation is thus the way to knowing and beholding the eternal indestructible, essential centre of our being”. “Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit”

Meditation is
the gathering of self knowledge and the dispelling of ignorance the pathway back to inner peace the restoration of love for Self the act of creating quality thoughts and feelings eaching to the highest level of conscious awareness the best way for busy people to stay cool, calm and focused

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“Meditation binds one to his present life. The purpose of meditation is not to realise peace after death. On the other hand, as soon as you begin to meditate properly, you start realising peace and joy in your life. Meditation enables us to perfect our present life so that our future automatically become perfect” By Yuvacarya Dr Sivamuni (from his book ’Dhyana Eka Divya Sadhana’)

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A steady state of mind constitutes meditation, while an active mind might be engaged in either contemplation or deep reflection or appreciation ……...Dhyana Sataka Just as fire fanned by powerful winds destroys heaps of firewood in no time, so also the fire of meditation destroys heaps of Karma in a moment ……..Pancastikaya A person whose mind is absorbed in meditation is not perturbed by miseries born of passions nor those born of jealousy, dejection, grief and other mental anxieties ……...Dhyana Sataka Meditation is perfected when the thought process becomes pure and sublime ……...Dasasrutaskandha Sutra
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Each day allow yourselves 24 minutes of peace, One minute for each hour of the day
FIRST
STEP

HOW

TO

MEDITATE

Sit in a place where you can be alone (physically and/or mentally) and where the air moves about freely. SECOND
STEP

Begin by practising pranayama-breathing - 1. Breathe in, 2. Retain the breath, and 3. Exhale. This exercise can be repeated twelve times, depending upon each person’s capacity. THIRD
STEP

Follow this breathing exercise with vocalising the mantra Him. The sound of Him, your inner power, evokes the universal energy. The universe responds to your vibrations. FOURTH
STEP

Allow your gaze to rest on a pleasant image right in front of you, or have your eyes half-closed completely, as it suits you. There is no force or tension; you are simply sitting in a relaxed mood and resting your gaze on anything which creates a peaceful, loving feeling. FIFTH
STEP

Slowly lift your gaze to middle point somewhere between where you are seated and the horizon. You may fix your eyes on some object or simply on a line of direction. If your eyes are closed, following the procedure within you, with your imagination. Rest at this point of focus for a half a minute or so. SIX
STEP

Gradually raise your gaze to the horizon itself, or if you are practising with closed eyes, gaze to the horizon imaginatively, SEVENTH
STEP

Repeat steps one to six, turning your attention inward, with your eyes closed. This whole procedure may take seven to eight minutes. There is no haste, no time pressure. By Puja Shree Chitrabhanuji