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108 / Lord Mahavira
Meditation is fundamental to all the religious practices of an aspirant. Meditation enables a person to understand his true nature and realize the self. It enables man to bring together all his scattered energies and manifests his hitherto concealed potential. It means living in the present where the memories of the past and imaginations of the future do not perplex the soul.
Dr. Shiv Muni says in his monumental work on meditation (Dhyana Eka Divya Sadhana) —“Meditation binds one to his present life. The purpose of meditation is not to realize peace after death. On the other hand, as soon as you begin to meditate properly you start realizing peace and joy in your life so that our future automatically becomes perfected.
Lord Mahavira says "An aspirant engaged in spiritual contemplation should relinquish mournful and wrathful meditation and practice righteous and purest meditation.
Of the four kinds of meditation mournful and wrathful cause birth and death in mundane existence and righteous or analytic and purest are instrumental in emancipation.
A person whose mind is absorbed in meditation is not perturbed by miseries born of passions nor those born of jealousy, dejection, grief and other mental anxieties.
A person who has no attachment, aversion and delusion and whose mind, speech and body are steadfast, burns all auspicious and inauspicious karmas in the fire of meditation.
