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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
શ્રી આત્માનંદ પ્રકાશ
The first thing to do in sadhana is to get a settled peace and silence in the mind. Otherwise you may have experiences, but nothing will be permanent. It is in the silent mind that the true consciousness can be built. A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all. but that these will be on the surface and you will feel your true being within separate from them observing but not carried away, able to watch and judge them and reject all that has to be rejected and to accept and keep all that is true consciousness and cxperience.
Keep constant sense of the inner being, in you, standing back from the external nature and turned to the Light and Truth.
Calm, even if it seems a negative thing, is so difficult to attain that to have it at all must be regarded as a great step in advance,
In reality, calm is not a negative thing, it is the very nature of the 2161 Y34, and the positive foundation of the Divine consciousness. Even knowledge, power, anand, if they come and do not find this foundation are unable to remain and have to withdraw until the Divine purity and peace of the 460 434. are permanently there. Only in the quiet mind and being can the supramental Truth build its true creation.
જે ગ્રંથ વાચન અને વિદ્યાવ્યાસંગ
( અંક ૨ ના પૃષ્ટ ૪૯ થી શરૂ)
વિઠ્ઠલદાસ–મૂ-શાહ. જે પુસ્તકોનું આટલું બધું મહત્વ છે તેના વાચન સંબંધી પણ કેટલીક બાબતે જાણવાની આવશ્યકતા છે. સૌથી પહેલી વાત તો એ છે કે આપણે જે કાંઈ વાંચવું તે ઘણું જ વિચારપૂર્વક અને શાંત ચિત્તથી વાંચવું જોઈએ. એક વિદ્વાનનું મંતવ્ય છે કે અધ્યયનનું કાર્ય કેવળ મનો-વિનોદ અથે નહિ, પરંતુ કર્તવ્યરૂપે .
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