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TULSI-PRAJNĄ
The concerned ascetic is now subjected to a psychological conflict produced by two opposite desires, simultaneously demanding appropriate action-the sexual desire demanding sexual act, while the desire for maintaining the sanctity of asceticism denying the same. It is, of course, open to the ascetic to suppress the former to avoid transgressing the ascetic code. However, a suppressed desire is not destroyed but goes underground in the subconscious mind and would continue to torment him from there. And frequent suppressions may result in the banished desire becoming a psychological explosive which is more dangerous for not being consciously recognised.
The ascetic may try to prevent the accumulation of such psychological dynamite by canalising the desire instead of suppressing it. Canalisation into alternate outlets or sublimation into various types of creative activities such as painting, writing, arts and crafts, etc., where the energy of the powerfully dangerous impulsive forces could be creatively utilised, could be resorted to.
The most appropriate way for the ascetic, however, is the process of catharsis of the desires through practising intense austerities, both external and internal. The external ones (fasting, foregoing rich and delicious foods etc.) are mostly helpful for enhancing the success attained by the practice of internal ones (meditation, self-study, etc.). Among these also, meditation (dhyāna) is considered to be the most efficient means for long lasting or permanent effect. Contemplation and Auto-suggestion, Perception of Psychic Centres and Perception of Psychic Colours are the most appropriate meditational exercises. Practice of meditation has the ability to strengthen the rectitude of will and weaken the impulsive forces.
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Contemplation and Auto-suggestion
The process of catharsis starts with contemplation and autosuggestion (anuprekṣa). The practitioner continuously reflects as under:
(i) "Sex begets sex; the more I indulge in it, the more tormenting it becomes. It is unsatiable." - ( सज्जातिया इमे वाया - 4 -4/50) (ii) "The omniscients (tīrthankaras) have declared that indulgence in sex results in influx and bondage of heavy karman leading to innumeruble cycles of re-births." --- ( वज्जकरा य एवमक्खाया - 4/50) (iii) "Far from being blissful, the indulgence in sex is terrorizing." - ( एवं भयं, ण सेयाए - 4 / 51 )
Perception of Psychic Centres
The next step in the process of countermanding the insistence of the desires, is transmutation of chemical energies of the hormones,
| SR No. | 524574 |
| Book Title | Tulsi Prajna 1993 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Parmeshwar Solanki |
| Publisher | Jain Vishva Bharati |
| Publication Year | 1993 |
| Total Pages | 166 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India |
| File Size | 7 MB |