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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
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The first two are unholy and they should be avoided. The rest are holy and one should try to entertain them. Unless you abandon unholy ones you cannot resort to holy ones. So one desirous of practising religious concentration should avoid these two types of mental concentrations.
Religious concentration is fourfold. (1) Considering the commands of the Lord (Agna Vichara). (2) Considering futility of temporal enjoyments (Apaya Vichara). (3) Considering Karmic nature (Vipaka Vichara). (4) Considering matter and place (Sansthan Vichara).
The first religious concentration is brought about by constantly considering the commands of the omniscient Lords, the nature of these commands and the extent of the practice of these commands.
The second religious concentration arises by constantly pondering over the fact that the world abounds in miseries, no creature in the world enjoys happiness, temporal happiness is not the matter of fact happiness but the illusion of happiness. The lifeless matter cannot secure happiness but happiness can be achieved through spiritual progress only.
The third type of religious concentration is arrived at by constantly considering the main and subsidiary species of Karmas, the way in which Karmic bond is generated, the way in which karmas are manifested, varieties of rewards with their respective roots in karmas and karma as the progenitor of various conditions experienced in life. (One who has not properly examined the real nature of karmas cannot certainly achieve such mental concentration. Hereby we want to convey that the current series of discourses about karma shall go a long way to help you in practising religious concentration of mind). The fourth kind of religious concentration is achieved by constantly considering problems about matter and place. Here by matter (Dravya) you should understand six dravyas like Dharmastikaya, Adharmastikaya etc. and by "place" you should understand various worlds like fourteen Rajloka etc. We desire to convey that the person applying his mind in the last type of concentration would mentally reflect on the nature of fourteen Rajlokas erected like a man standing with his hand on his waist. He would affirm his religious conviction by reflecting on trasanadi, nether regions, mid
