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3324%. 1 SPIRITUAL LIGHT. . four heads: Ārta, Raudra, Dharma and Shukla. The first two, instead of rooting out or controlling the Karmic forces, tend to favour the influx of fresh. energies. Ārta Dhyāna means ardently desiring for the attainment of an object of choice, etc.. It is of four kinds: ( 1 ) Arising from eagerly brooding upon : the loss of a dear object, son or a near relation: ( Ishta viyoga ); (2) Brooding upon the attainment of unpleasant and undesirable things ( Anishta - sanyoga ); (3) Brooding upon with anxiety over! physical sufferings and diseases ( Rogachintā ); and · (4) Entertaining high hopes or anxious fears for future." ( Agrashocha ).
Raudra Dhyāna expresses itself into four forms: (1) Hinsānubandhi-taking delight in doing injury and kindred sins; (2) Mrishānubandhi-enjoying with pleasure · the practice of deceit, fraud and hypocrisy; (3) Steyanubandhi-committing robbery, thefts and criminal mis-appropriations of the property of others; and (4) Dhanasamrakshānānubandhi-overscrupulously careful in protecting and increasing the accumulation of wealth and property.
· Dharma Dhyāna is classified into four heads: (1) Ājnāvichaya includes concentration over the nine categories and substances with their attributes and modifications as laid down in the scriptures with a sincere belief in their truth as they are revealed by the Omniscient Masters. (2) Apāyavichaya means repeated reflections over the ways and means whereby i the Karmic energies, the cause of repeated births and
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