Transmutation of Personality through Preksha Meditation

SR No.: 006546
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tulsi Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 282
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Yoga, L000, & L001
File Size: 12 MB

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Ans. When a man is attached to material objects, his desires and options, certainties and uncertainties, increase. If he is not bound up with matter, there is no room for uncertainties to arise. When a man is tied to someone, he invites restlessness. The man who is not tied to anything, who is unattached, has no occasion to be grieved. What shall he pine for and why? Although man knows that the thing or person he is attached with, cannot save him, still he is not able to free himself from attachment. As long as attachment subsists in any form, there can be no peace.
The man who desires peace, who wants to be alone, who wants to follow the path of renunciation, does not have to do anything except change his direction, i.e., his⚫ approach, his way of looking at things. His complete identification with matter, he transfers to his inner being. A man who wanders in search of bliss outside, is caught in delusion. If there is happiness anywhere, it is inside oneself. To understand the current of joy, power and consciousness that flows within, to awaken and experience it, is the secret of introversion. The man who learns this secret, will never be unquiet.
Entry into oneself or turning away from external objects is the process by which a sadhak becomes an inward gazer. What to speak of abiding peace, one does not get even momentary satisfaction without introversion. It is pleasant to hear the word, peace, but it is far more pleasant to attain it. But then one must know the technique of transforming unrest into tranquillity. The complete understanding of the process may not be possible at once, but the act of transferring or directing one's absorbing interest in material things into understanding one's inner being, the entity that one calls oneself, may be a way out of the problem.
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