Preksha Meditation

SR No.: 006553
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jethalal S Zaveri
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 34
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Yoga
File Size: 2 MB

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Thus, roots of irrational fear, hate, cruelty and such other emotional distortions lie in the process of repression. In another mechanism called suppression the process of banishment being conscious, such distortions are less likely to appear and are less intense when they do so.
Reapeated conflicts and frequent repression inflict lasting distortions on the psyche and produce undesirable and evil determiners of human behaviour such as cruelty, vindictiveness, militarism etc., and result in barbarous and even inhuman actions.
One way to prevent the accumulation of such a store of psychological explosive is to canalise the self-assertive aggressive impulses into alternate outlets: physical activities like playing football or climbing mountains could provide excellent outlets for ventilating anger. An erotic urge may be sublimated into higher type of creative activity like art, exploration or research. Canalisation of aggressive urges into concious constructive channels or sublimition of erotic mood into higher type of creative activity are desirable antidotes to the poison of repression. They are, however, incapable of preventing the poison being reproduced. Conscious reasoning and rational judgement alone can prevent the relegation of one of the conflicting impulses to the unconscious to create poison. Instead, they are balanced in the light of reason, knowledge and experience and control of action is conciously exercised. Powerful but dangerous impulsive forces would then either be creatively utilised or destroyed. And this is exactly what was meant when it was stated earlier that the expressions of the human nature can be definitely and thoroughly changed. What is necessary then is the development of that unique attribute of manking which is called reasoning mind and rational thinking, and ultimately establish control of concious reasoning over all the activities-physical, mental and emotional. Practice of meditation has the capacity to strengthen the power of reasoning mind and weaken the forces of primal urges. And we shall now proceed to discuss the process which produces such a result.
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