Atma Dharma

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

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but Life and Light* all round. Let the novice do this daily for 10 or 15 minutes in some quiet place, and he will soon learn what untold and unique joy the knowers of the soul have enjoyed in the past and enjoy to-day
Another simple method of self-realisation is to imagine the soul as a luminous effulgent fluid filling the body, which is to be conceived as a receptacle or jar. The soul might also be visualised as the mono-syllable. (Om), of glowing splendour, located in the region of the solar or the cardiac plexus and shedding an effulgent radiance all round from its seat in the body.
The following method is also recommended by the adepts as a highly efficacious one: imagine a white lotus of sixteen petals placed facing upwards in the plexus at the navel with the sixteen Hindi Vowels, 7,
and the like inscribed on its sixteen petals
· *Cf. “When the Light of the Soul compared with which all other lights are only so many forms of darkness, is perceived, then there is an end to nayavad, that is to say, the system of standpoints ; pramana (abstract metaphysical knowledge) has disappeared; the current methods of nomenclature of the learned-nama (naming without attaching any special significance to the name), sthapana (investing a thing with certain specific qualities in naming it) and the like--are gone, no one can say where, and there is no need to say anything else except that then the soul knows no second besides its own self."--Samaya sära Kalasha, by Amrita Chandra Suri.