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Art & Science of Meditation
Summary All philosophies/religions agree that we should love, have sympathy and have compassion for every human being, but Jain philosophy includes not only human beings, but all living beings. Jain philosophy says not to kill any living beings, so to sustain our life, we have to be pure vegetarians.
Self-Realization
Self-realization should be the most important goal of our lives. Everybody should ask himself/herself who am I? My body, brain and mind are mine – but still who am I? Through meditation we can pursue the answer. We have to work hard, concentrate/focus upon it with lots of passion and single minded pursuit. There will be a lot of problems and hurdles during the process of self-realization. During the meditation process it may present different aura, intuition, extraordinary powers, but we have to ignore them all and go deeper in the meditation. Because those who use these extra powers for self-interest, may fail to achieve the self-realization. After a lot of hard work, some people may feel frustrated or depressed because they did not achieve their goals. One should be careful not be frustrated or depressed during the process of self-realization
We should keep an open mind, so that we can accept the new truths – from science, natural laws, intuition and meditation.
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