Book Title: Jaganmohanlal Pandita Sadhuwad Granth
Author(s): Sudarshanlal Jain
Publisher: Jaganmohanlal Shastri Sadhuwad Samiti Jabalpur
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१५२ पं० जगन्मोहनलाल शास्त्री साधुवाद ग्रन्थ
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The following table shows the psychic centres, colours to be visualized and what is to be experienced by intense willing:
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Psychic Centres
Centre of bliss
(Ananda Kendra)
Centre of Purity (visuddhi Kendra)
Centre of intuition (darsana kendra)
Centre of wisdom (jnana kendra) or
centre of vision
(chaksus kendra)
Position
Heart
Pineal
gland
Head
cortex
Centre of enlighten- Pituitary gland ment (jyotikendra)
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Colours to be visualized
Emerald Green
Peacock-neck
Blue
Rising sun red
Golden Yellow
Full moon white
Intense willing and experience
Freedom from psychological faults and Negative attitudes. Self-control of Urges and impules.
Awakenning of intuition-bliss.
Acuity of perception-clarity of thought.
Benefits: (i) Mental Happiness
Numerous benefits accrue from the practice of perception of psychic colours. Some benefits pertain to the internal functions and some to the external ones: some are physical and some mental. One of the immediate benefits is mental happiness. As one becomes more accomplished, mental happiness increases. The feeling is not of joy or pleasure, but of happiness. There is much difference between the two. Wherever there is joy, there is bound to be sorrow, they are inseparable. What one achieves as a benefit is happiness, and not joy. An internal benefit is refinement of one's aura. A regular practitioner of systematic meditation has a refined aura, purified lesya and undistorted emotions.
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Tranquillity, subsidence of anger and other state of agitation and excitation.
(ii) Evidence of Religiosity: One may desire to protect himself from the miseries accruing from sin, by seeking refuge in religion. That is, one wants to escape the consequences of sinful life. At the same time, one wishes to get that which is not obtainable from it. Bad habits, vicious mentality, anxiety, agitation and mental tension-all these result from a sinful life, but one wants to get rid of them. He wants peace, harmony, freedom from tension, sympathy and friendship. That is why one desires to take refuge in religiousness. Even after accepting the religion, if one does not change, there is something wrong somewhere, i. e, either he failed to follow the religious path or he made a wrong choice.
One adopts a religion or a creed and adheres to it for the whole life. But at the time of death, one strikes a balance sheet and finds that the result is zero, that there has been no change in his behaviour, and that there is no evidence of religiosity in his way of
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