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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the intensity or the inauspicious colours of anger. The action takes place when the assaulting force of anger and counterattacking force of leśyā dhyāna are both still in the form of energy radiations.
Towards Absolute Tranquillity
One can envisage three mental states: 1. evil thoughts, 2. good thoughts and 3. tranquillity. The first two states are both states of agitation i.e, states of waves. In this regard there, is no distinction between the two states. Of course there is a lot of difference in regard to their effects. A layman expresses his view of the visible universe, in such terms as heat, light, sound, colour, etc. But a physicist would think of all these as radiations of electromagnetic energy-waves of different wavelengths and frequencies. Everything in the universe manifests itself by emitting or absorbing electromagnetic energy. Therefore, both bad and good thoughts also are electromagnetic waves; both are forms of agitation. If one wants to attain the state of tranquillity where there is no agitation, no excitation and no motion, one has to follow a prescribed route. The first step in this process is to annihilate the malevolent waves by the benevolent ones. Unless one produces benevolent waves, the malevolent ones cannot be destroyed. Waves of evil thoughts have carried one much further away from the point of tranquillity. Waves of good thoughts bring him nearer to that point. True, one cannot attain tranquillity by good thoughts alone but he can surely proceed in that direction by first breaking and then reversing one's motion which was taking him further away from the point of tranquillity.
The simple way of reversing the direction, i.e. from evil thoughts to good ones, is leśyā dhyāna. Without resorting to its practice, the thought-direction cannot be reversed. Man, being a social animal, is constantly affected by social environment. Sometimes he is overwhelmed by aggressive
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