From IIM Ahmedabad To Happiness

Author(s): Vijay K Jain
Publisher: Vikalp Printers

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FROM IIM-AHMEDABAD TO HAPPINESS
direction be that of Life, and there will be no limit to his power and happiness!
The process of rearranging the particles of our mind will entail doing away with the habit of confining our thoughts to what are called ārta dhyāna (sorrowful meditation) and raudra dhyāna (cruel meditation) forms of meditation. These are inauspicious kinds of meditation as they lead to the influx and bondage of inauspicious karmas.
In 'sorrowful' meditation, a person thinks, again and again, about his coming in contact with disagreeable objects, events and situations, which cause him pain, and the ways and means of getting rid of them. He is not able to free his mind from the anguish caused by the loss of some agreeable objects, such as wealth or close relative. He is possessed by feelings of pain caused by disease or sickness, and is constantly under fear. He is tormented by the desire for pleasures, wishing always for the pleasures not yet attained by him.
In 'cruel' meditation he thinks, again and again, about the delight generated to him in teasing, injuring, hunting or killing other living beings; about taking revenge, planning to beat or kill someone; about fabricating facts to gain undue advantage; about devising schemes for sensual gratification and accumulation of wealth and material comforts.
As against these inauspicious kinds of meditation, the man after Truth, takes refuge in the other two kinds of meditation which are auspicious: dharma dhyāna (righteous mediation), and shukla dhyāna (pure, spiritual meditation).
'Righteous' meditation is thinking, again and again, about God's revelations; about the ways and means to escape from the cycle of worldly existence; about the fruition of karmas and means for dissociation of the soul from them; about the structure and form of the universe.
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