Jaganmohanlal Pandita Sadhuwad Granth

Author(s): Sudarshanlal Jain
Publisher: Jaganmohanlal Shastri Sadhuwad Samiti Jabalpur

Page 295

१४६ पं० जगन्मोहनलाल शास्त्री साधुवाद ग्रन्थ
[ Cos it dips into the memory story and is suddenly filled with violence or hatred or intense dislike; on the other hand sometimes it is filled with benevolent thoughts and at times it is mentally prepared to renounce to world. Why does this happen? Why do the sentiments change? Who opens the door or window of the memory store ? It is none else but our own conscious mind. Whenever and wherever our attention is fixed on whichever organ or gland or psychic centre or a particular part of the body, the attention is concentrated or focussed on that part and the organ or centre is stimulated. Once, this simple rule is known, it becomes easy for a 'sadhaka' to choose the centre of concentration. For integrated development of personality, it is necessary to meditate on those centres which are responsible for and control our attitude, behaviour and personality factors. These are : (1) centre of purity (visuddhi kendra), (2) centre of intuition (darsana kendra), (3) centre of enlightenment (jyoti kendra), (4) centre of peace (santi kendra), and (5) centre of wisdom (jnana kendra); these five psychic centres regulate and control our personality factors and, therefore, our behaviour. Perception of these centres purges out distortions from our thoughts and deeds, changes negative attitudes to positive ones and aesthetices our character and behaviour.
It is true that environmental conditions influence our emotional nature. But environment is not the material cause or primary reason. The main cause is the synthesization of hormonal secretions by our endocrines. This then, is the material cause, while the environmental conditions are the immediate cause. We have to modify the material cause as well as the immediate one. However, primary importance must be given to the former, while the environmental circumstances can be given the second place. The impelling forces of the emotional drives are derived from the translation of the intangible past recorded in the inner subtle body (karmasarira). The endocrine system is the inter-communicating computer or transformer between the subtle and the gross bodies. Hormones produced by the endocrines act as chemical messengers and integrate the organism. Once the wise sadhaka learns this truth and its implications, he will not be bogged down in the superfluous outer bodily functions, but delve deeper inside. Ultimately, he will come face to face with the inner subtle body and the intangible code of the recorded past. This, in reality, is the main purpose of the spiritual exercises-to delve deeper and deeper, till one reaches the subtle body, decode and interpret the imperceptible forces of Karma, which is the primemover of the endocrine activity. Nay, he should go still further and realise his own real self, the psyche or the soul, who is the real master, activating the subtle as well as the gross bodies.
The psychic action is ceaseless i.e. the flow of spiritual energy is constant. When the flow is directed towards upper psychic centres, the result is goodness or godliness, but when the flow is directed towards the nether centres which are the generators of passions and urges, the result is evil and distorted thought and deed. When the flow of psychic energy activates nether centres i.e. adrenals and gonads which, by synthesization of their produces, incite the passionate urges like anger and aggerssion, and which provide the impelling force to the primal drives, the result will be irrational behaviour and impulsive action.,