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adjustments. These karmic accounts are due to the four different types of dhyan: artadhyan, raudradhyan, dharmadhyan and shukladhyan. Whatever the prevailing dhyan, so are the consequences.
In spite of the wanderings of endless lives, man's artadhyan and raudradhyan have not stopped. That is why you have to understand the nature of these adverse meditations. When conflicts arise at home, you have to ask for forgiveness as well as grant forgiveness and you have to do it in such a way that the other person will not bind any vengeance. The highest dharmadhyan is to remain in the Lord's Agnas. Why is it necessary to ask for forgiveness? Are you asking for forgiveness without anything in return? No. The truth of the matter is that whatever you gave in the past life is exactly what you will get back in this life.
Nothing of the outside torments people, it is only the artadhyan and raudradhyan that does so. It is not easy to get rid of anger, pride, illusion and greed (krodha, maan, maya and lobha). How alert and aware do you remain if your doctor tells you that you cannot eat any sugar? If your doctor tells you, "You have suffered a heart attack and so you must not eat any salt because you will suffer another heart attack that will kill you if you do." How attentive do you become in such instances? Why do you remain so alert there? These artadhyan and raudradhyan perpetuate life after life and that is the death of life after life; they never liberate you. You will automatically reduce them by fifty percent from the moment you decide that you want to put a stop to them. You can worship whom ever you want to read any scripture you want to, do samayik if you want to pay homage to any guru you want to, but make sure that no artadhyan or raudradhyan occurs. There can never be shukladhyan (being the Self) in the current time cycle. Nevertheless if anyone wants shukladhyan, and wants to stop their worries forever, they can come here in our satsang. 'We' will grant him shukladhyan
within one hour. What can the Gnani Purush not do? He can do whatever He wishes. 'We' (the Gnani Purush and the fully enlightened Lord within) are not the doer of anything. 'We' remain constantly in a state (bhaav) of being a nimit (instrumental evidence).
If one cannot achieve shukladhyan, but if he maintains dharmadhyan in the current era, it is enough. Today, true dharmadhyan has disappeared. People have no understanding at all of what dharmadhyan is. For whatever time one is able to 'do' or maintain dharmadhyan, even if it is for an hour or two, there is an experience of tremendous happiness at that time. That effect then continues for few more hours. But what can anyone do when people do not even understand what dharmadhyan is? People are involved in artadhyan and raudradhyan all day long. There is nothing but nagging all day long. The Lord had said for us to remain in dharmadhyan.
Four pillars of dharmadhyan Questioner : What did the Lord consider dharmadhyan?
Dadashri : The Lord has had said that agna is dharma (one's real religion) and agna is penance also. (Abiding by the Lord's agna is one's duty and religion and that is true penance). The Lord said there are four pillars of dharmadhyan.
The first pillar of dharmadhyan is to accept and believe that Lord's agnas are correct. This is the first pillar, agnavichaya. The second pillar is apaya-vichaya where one no longer has anger, pride, illusion or greed. The third pillar is vipak-vichaya where if someone throws a stone at you, you accept it as the maturation of your own karma and the fourth pillar is sansthan-vichaya. When one understands the reality of these then the dharmadhyan ends completely.
Everyone agrees for sure that the Lord's agnas are correct. It is fine if one does not have a profound understanding
