Book Title: Gandhi Before Gandhi
Author(s): Bipin Doshi, Priti Shah
Publisher: Jain Academy Educational Research Center Promotion Trust Mumbai
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A GANDHI BEFORE GANDHI
and the things to be known. Right belief is not blind faith but logical acceptance of right knowledge. Volumes can be written on right actions but to put in simple words, "It is one which does no harm to self virtues and others."
Avadhi, Manaharya and Keval Gyan. The real progress occurs when one subside his passion like anger, pride, deceitfulness and greed.
Let us repeat, the essence of concentration is to improve our ethical and spiritual life which leads us to the path of liberation the ultimate truth and happiness
Other things helpful for concentration are early morning time, holy and quite place without any pollution, comfortable white cotton clothing, easy posture, facing north or east, free rhythmic breathing, Satvic food etc.
The process of concentration includes three steps 1)Syntatis,where object and knower are standing together 2)Analysis where knower collects various facts about object and 3) Synthesis, where knower puts all facts together and looks for the relation of the object to the other things of universe.
The purpose of concentration should be well defined. In our routine life it may be for worldly gains and for increasing the knowledge, in moral sense it must be to improve the ethics of our life but in spiritual sense it is knowing one's self."
Where is our concentration?
First gateway of knowledge is through the senses and here also to improve the sensual knowledge the concentration methods are useful. Again to improve this one must have earnest desire, appreciation of faculty hard work to get that faculty. For right knowledge, the morality is required. It is not only perception but desire to act with determination.
How to cultivate this soul nature and that is what brings us to the science of concentration. We have to observe the physical rules and mental rules of concentration. How can we concentrate our attention? In a sense all of us do concentrate; we only do not know where we do it. Many of us are fond of certain things and spend much time in the pursuit of those things. Those
As one progresses on spiritual path, he may acquire the faculties of direct knowledge by Soul without the help of senses, described in Jain texts as
