Tulsi Prajna 1993 01

SR No.: 524573
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 156
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 9 MB

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TULSIPRAJNA
Meditation is the science of development of mind or consciousness
Under the influence of behaviourism and strict experimentation, psychology has been limited to remain a 'science of behaviour' only. It does not recognize that the cause of behaviour lies in the mind and the cause of mind lies in the pure Consciousness. A scientific study of meditation should revive the interest of the psychologists in the mind and the consciousness the areas in which the psychologists were interested to begin with.
What is not Meditation?
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The science of meditation has been misunderstood and also misrepresented in certain quarters. The purpose of meditation is attaining a state of mind known as Yoga which has been defined in Patanjala Darshana (42) as ‘a state attained by gaining complete mastery over the mind and emotions'. This leads to a cessation of the whirl or gyration in the mind. The mind is no longer out of the control of its master, but becomes one-pointed and integrated as well as flexible and pliable. The individual does not run like a hackney-carriage horse with an invisible rider at its back who pulls the reins in directions not known to him, but he begins to feel control over his psychophysical organism. The individual is filled with a strange sense of contentment and self-sufficiency. There is no scope left for 'mood' or 'boredom' to visit the mind. Many fears and anxieties go as he feels himself as a part of a 'larger whole'. Some euphoric ecstasy dawns on the mind which not drug can produce. The knotted mass of tensions, intrigues, malice, hatred, jealously and fears begin to open up gradually and gradually. This is, at least, what the Science of Meditation' promises, if properly performed, for it expands the frontiers of individualized consciousness.
But meditation is not just a replica for a euphoric drug or a tranquilizer. If that was so, synthetic smile or medicated peace should have been preferable to the serenity and peace which are the hall-marks of a stable and equi poised mind promised by meditation. There are a number of studies now to show positive effect of meditation on blood pressure or other aspects of physical well-being. Whereas there is no reason to doubt these findings, it is emphasized that meditation is not all about that. Its aim is much higher, though many such psychosomatic ailments are cured on the way to the last stage of meditation, that is, 'Samadhi'. After all the somatic symptoms, like, blood pressure, urticaria, hypertension, or migraine, are but the visible upshots of the psychological complexes deep down. When meditation resolves the complexes, the roots dry up. the visible flowers and leaves automatically wither away.
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Patanjali holds that the five great obstacles or miseries shall be overcome while on the way to the final stage of meditation, i.e., Samadhi. They are ignorance
January-March 1993