Tulsi Prajna 1995 04

SR No.: 524583
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1995
Total Pages: 158
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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There is a risk of your falling asleep in the middle of your practice. So if you cannot avoid it, you may keep sitting in a chair, instead of lying in the bed. When you review only the boarder events you can finish in a short time, but it would take longer time when you go into details. For concentration purpose, both are of equal value, since you are simply to keep your attention fixed on the passing chain of the events. But going in to details is a good exer. cise for memory also. So the length of the practice depends on the time at your disposal.
Secondly, you are required to fix your mind on a single point instead of a subject. This is a difficult task for random thought arise and fantasies come to notice. These thoughts arise in the mind itself and not come from outside. We are taught how to move and behave in the external world, but we are never taught how to be still and examine what is within ourselves, when it is a universal require. ment of tbe human body.2
It is like a person who uscs a large can to put his garbage in day and night. After doing many years of this, a visiter tells him that he
has some precious diamonds at the bottom of the can. The person : begins to search for these diamonds, but as he puts his hand in, he
finds garbage and no diamonds. Again he looks for the diamonds and fails. So becoming despondent, he withdraws. But he never discontinues to pour more grabage in that can
* Similarly what ever you have stored in the mind will be seen when • you start thinking. Due to the imbalance of Phlegm in the body or
to the predominance of Tamas (a) in the mind one experiences all kinds of Pains and Pangs, sorrows and greets and fears and other obstructions, which can only be overcome through patience and regular practice.*
Now begins the stage of visualisation. As soon as one withdraws from the thought of the environment as well as the sounds and sights, he becomes aware of his/her body and if the body has not been cleansed and clothing is incorrect he begins to feel an itch Then he wonders like a blindman who was left in a room, after a chemical
spray on his body, to find the door by touching the walls. He goes * around and around in the room but itching causes him to scratch
and he misses the door. So cleanliness, posture, fixed time and order in all matters is a great help in keeping the mind free of confusion for the whole of the body is in the mind, but the whole of the mind is not in the body.