Gyandhara 04

Author(s): Gunvant Barvalia
Publisher: Saurashtra Kesari Pranguru Jain Philosophical and Literary Research Centre

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Colour affects the conscious, subconscious and unconscious mind as well as our total personality. Visualization and perception of psychic colours in conjunction with psychic centers is a very important exercise in the system of Preksa meditation. In this exercise, the practitioner concentrates his full attention on a prescribed psychic centre and visualizes a specific bright colour at that centre. Mental steadiness and concentration are essential in this exercise. Concentration here means intensified and sustained visualization of a desired colour, which is produced by the subtle taijasa body and then projected by the mind.
Perception of psychic colours in conjunction with psychic centers produces internal chemical transmutations and these, in turn, initiate the process of attitudinal change i.e. eradication of psychological distortions and acquisition of desirable virtues. (P.10)
6. Step Six: Repeated Recitation of ideals & contemplation
Repeated prolonged recitation of words (or sentences), which describe the practitioner's intense will to acquire a virtue, can bring about a radical attitudinal reform. The mental faculty or function, which is directed to conscious and intentional action, is called will. If one applies one's will power with a resolute determination that something shall happen, it wiil happen. Full concentration of mental faculty coupled with intense willing results in the fulfillment of the desired objective. In other words, repeated willing and autosuggestion by a practitioner of ANUPREKSA enables him to achieve a desired objective. If his objective is to effect an attitudinal change (e.g. from negative to positive), he can bring about the change.
7. Anupreksa or reflections on various bhavnas is the final stage of preksa meditation. This is the stage of the value addition to meditation. જ્ઞાનધારા
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