Preksha Dhyana Perception of Psychic Colours

SR No.: 006552
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mahapragna Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1995
Total Pages: 82
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Yoga
File Size: 4 MB

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impure, polluted and contaminated on its emergence. Then how can it remain pure ?
Emotional purity is the outcome of pure adhyavasāya and the latter is the result of nullifying or weakening the effect of kaşāya. Now the polluting forces of kaṣāya can be countermanded in two ways : First, whenever the psychic energy is purely objective, it is not polluted by the forces of kaṣāya. Consequently, the adhyavasāya produced at the moment would be pure. The psychic energy remains purely objective when it is free from the tint of like or dislike. That is the case only when the psyche is merely a spectator or knower and not an actor or doer, and this is exactly what a practitioner of prekṣā system of meditation endeavours to become.
Secondly, there is an alternate method of countermanding the forces of kaşāya by the production of waves of delusion-subsiding type. When we practise meditation, our subtle body simultaneously radiates two types of waves; (i) the delusion-producing types and (ii) its opposite, the delusionsubsiding type. Inevitably they interact with each other. It is the resultant wave which is processed and converted into emotion, when it interacts with leśyā.' The weaker the field of malevolence kaşāya, the less strong and more debilitated would be the delusion-producing waves. Although they would not be extinct, their strength and intensity would by very low. The resultant wave would be predominantly delusion-subsiding and the resulting mental state would be auspicious and beneficial. In other words, when the delusion-producing waves are stronger, (that is when malevolent leśyā are dominant), the effects of benevolent leśyā are nullified. Conversely, whenever delusion-subsiding waves are stronger, benevolent leśyā is dominant and the corresponding emotions are pure and virtuous. Thus, the other way of countermanding the forces of kaşāya is to neutralise or modify the waves of impulsive forces emerging from the field of kaşāya by producing 1. See chapter I.
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