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(2) Dhyan (Meditation)
The Nature of Dhyan Questioner: Why is meditation (dhyan) not mentioned in Jainism?
Dadashri: All four dhyans do appear in the Jain religion. They occur on their own. Dhyan is not something one has to do.
Questioner: What is dhyan?
Dadashri: Dhyan simultaneously occurs while one is doing worldly activities. But to do the dhyan, wouldn't you have to sit in one place?
Questioner: Yes.
Dadashri: That is called concentration (ekagrata). Dhyan constantly takes place in everyone. What is dhyan? If someone says to you, “You do not have any sense,” you will experience raudradhyan. It will happen naturally. If someone were to push you around, it will come about.
Questioner: How does this dhyan occur? What is its stage?
Dadashri: If someone were to say to you, “You have ruined everything,” its internal effect on you, the anger that it incites, is raudradhyan.
Whenever the mind says, “What will happen to me?” that is called artadhyan. When you hear about the rationing of sugar and the mind says, “The sugar is being rationed. We did not buy
