Aptavani 01

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation

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One of the properties of the Soul is that whatever a person contemplates, he will become that. A person can create bondage of a new lifetime for each situation - this is how everything is.
Meditation And Adverse Meditation
God has said that every human being is engaged in one of the four types of meditative states : Artadhyan, raudradhyan, dharmadhyan and shukladhyan
Arta-dhyana-internalized repressive or self-tormenting contemplation or suffering. Raudra-dhhyana-evil contemplation of perverse pleasure in causing injury to others; wrathful meditation. Dharma-dhyana - Virtuous contemplation and Shukla-dhyana - pure contemplation of the Self.
Dhyan-apdhyan is meditation that cannot be included in the above four. In the past some people used to have apdhyana, but nowadays even a peon has it. These people will tremble at my words, if not today then after I leave. Apdhyan is even worse than durdhyana (evil meditation). It exists only in this time cycle and is not included in raudra, arta or dharma. And the scriptures say that shukla-dhyana is nowhere to be found in this day and age.
Apdhyana is the meditation that you failed to do methodically in all activities related to your liberation. When a person is doing samayik (introspective meditation), rather than focusing on the meditation itself, he is preoccupied with how much time he has left to complete his samayik. When a person does samayik, his attention is on his doership, he even claims that he did the samayik, but at the same time he is looking at the hourglass. How can you call it meditation when his focus is on the hourglass?
a fabric store, you inquire about a certain fabric and the cloth merchant tells you it is terelene and that it is twenty rupees per meter. You decide to buy it. But what do the cloth sellers do when they measure the material? Have you seen them stretch it this way and that way? Do you think they are exercising their arms? That is raudra-dhyan. Raudra-dhyan is to sell the customer short and cheat them out of their fair share. Here the merchant's intent is to hyper stretch the material while measuring it so that he will end up giving you less than the amount you pay for. Raudra-dhyan is to take more than needed. It is to cheat customers when measuring or weighing their goods and selling them short. Adulteration of food and other goods is also raudradhyan. To covet other people's belongings or to even think about seizing other people's happiness is raudra-dhyana. Decide in advance what your profit margin needs to be. It is acceptable for you to make fifteen to twenty percent profit in your business. If in addition to this, you sell your customers short by stretching the material when you measure, that is an offence. It is a serious and grave offence. A true Jain will not have raudra-dhyana, and should it occur, it would occur only once in a while, just like accidents. Getting angry, cursing someone and quarrelling is also raudra-dhyan. The fully enlightened Lords have said that a Jain should utilize raudra-dhyan very sparingly and yet today it is used the most. The spiritual leaders are committing raudradhyan when they get angry with their less intelligent disciples. Even internal annoyance is considered raudra-dhyan. These days what can be said about people who use foul language directly and frequently?
A life in hell is the consequence of raudra-dhyana.
Aarta-dhyan : Aarta-dhyan is meditation that causes suffering to the soul (the person himself). A person who does not hurt any living being but worries about his future is aartadhyan. It is however, better than raudra-dhyan because he is
Raudra dhyan : What is raudra-dhyan? Say you are in