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GURUDEVA SMRITI GRANTHA
is disturbed; the social and political set-up is disturbed If the mental make-up in general is sound, the external world will necessarily have a trend towards improvement All these disturbances have their seeds in the mind Hence the importance of the discipline of mind, and the wide implications of concentration of mind
In the everyday life concentration is of great psychological worth. Without concentration one's normal life is impossible In its simplest form concentration is the narrowing of the field of attention in a manner and for the time determined by the will The "mind is made one pointed and does not waver and does not scatter itself like the flame of the lamp in the absence of the wind". Everything changes every moment however slight the change may be, but it is concentration which provides some stability in this perpetual flux enabling mind to stand on the object without distraction for more than one moment "In addition a synthesising activity (Sam-a-dhi-Syn-thesis) binds together a number of mental states which arise at the same time as water binds the latter of soap". (Comze) Such is the importance of concentration from psychological to spiritual growth.
But the spiritual concentration is very much ahead of Psychological concentration, which need good training of mind with great effort "Spiritual or transic concentration results less from intellectual effort than from a rebirth of whole personality including body emotion and will "
The term Samadhi or concentration means firmly placing-the act of putt ng or placing the mind and mental functions evenly and properly:
समाधानद्वेन समाधि, एकारम्मेण चित्त चैतसिकं सम सम्भा च श्राधारं थापन ति बुत्तम होति । (Visuddhimaggo Buddhaghosa)
Buddhaghaghosa has brought out various characteristic features of samadhi as to what are the characteristic function, manifestation and proximate cause of concentration Concentration has non-distraction as its characterstic. Its function is to eliminate distraction It is manifest as non-wavering and its proximate cause is bliss This in a nutshell is the summery of his grand research on concentration-as a means to spiritual development.
He classifies Samadhi as Upacara and Appana (Arpan) In the attempt for concentration of mind, upacara is said to be that mental state which immediately proceeds the fixation of mind on a certain point, the fixation is termed as Appana. Hence this classification indicates the preparatory attempts for developing concentra
tion of mind
Another classification which he makes is that of Laukiya Samadhi and Lokuttara Samadhi Laukiya Samadhi is connected with good thoughts "Kusalacıtta
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| SR No. | 010772 |
| Book Title | Ratnamuni Smruti Granth |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Vijaymuni Shastri, Harishankar Sharma |
| Publisher | Gurudev Smruti Granth Samiti |
| Publication Year | 1964 |
| Total Pages | 687 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 21 MB |