Book Title: Key to Happiness
Author(s): Jayesh Mohanlal Sheth
Publisher: Shailesh Punamchand Shah

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________________ it is called the nirvikalp swaatmanubhuti (experience of the imageless pure Soul i.e. all thoughts get subsided). At that time sensual feelings of mind exists but it gets transformed in to extra sensual knowledge that is why it is called nirvikalp swaatmanubhuti. Now I will describe dhyaana (meditation) in short. Concentrated contemplation of the mind on anything-person-circumstances is known as dhyaana. Mind is very important for Samyagdarshana because the subject matter of the Samyagdarshana is meditated by the mind and even during the extra sensual experience of the Soul it is the bhaava mana (manifestation of the Soul as knower/feeler) that gets transformed as atindriya gnyaana (extra sensual knowledge). That is why on what subjects the mind concentrates on or contemplates on is the major cause of the karmabandha (bondage of karma) and the moksha (emancipation). This means that mind is the major cause of both i.e. bondage of the karmas or the emancipation. Bondage of karma occurs due to manavachana-kaya (thought-speech-body). The minimum bondage of karma occurs due to body, because the strength of the body has limitations. Bondage of karma occurs more by speech than by body and the KEY TO HAPPINESS ✰ 19

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