Atma Dharma

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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( 28 ) personal observation or to feel and be benefited by its powerful joyous vibrations, except with an unruffled, undisturbed, dispassionate mind, associated with a body that is healthy, lithe, energetic and fully under control. A well-regulated life with pure wholesome light food is, therefore, absolutely necessary, if real progress is to be made on the path.” The use of meat and wine is forbidden, as they tend to disturb mental equanimity, excite the passions and coarsen those finer “threads" and nervous filaments which connect the soul with the mind, preventing thereby the turning of attention inwards in the direction of the Self.
So much for the external helpful causes of meditation : the inner, internal, or mental causes consist of certain thought-forms, which have been found to be highly useful as aids to self-realisation. Of these, a very simple form of mental exercise is to iraagine a pure Effulgent Divinity, of a size slightly smaller than the physical body, a partless embodiment of pure intelligence, pure happiness and peace residing within the outward self. This is to be visualised by closing the eyes and by fixing the attention on the “inside.” If it is found necessary to employ words with reference to this embodiment of pure knowledge and joy, it should only be meditated upon with the aid of such words as are descriptive of the true nature of the soul