Meditation and Jainism

Author(s): Pratapkumar J Toliiya, Parul P Toliya
Publisher: Vardhaman Bharti International Foundation Bangalore

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under a number of names – Eastern as well as Western : Indian as well as Global. But the balanced and impartial study of all these reveal that many or most of them have mis-practiced, mis-placed, mis-understood and mis-interpreted Meditation. To be very precise, Meditation is not a "Miracle", Mystical Confusion, Circus Show, mere physical or mental exercise or onesided view/approach of things based on imagination.
MEDITATION MISUNDERSTOOD & MISINTERPRETED:
When meditation is mistaken as referred to above, then what is its right form, right understanding, right inter-pretation ?
Well, the books, scriaptures, or this speaker will not be able to provide your required answer, readymade reply, or interpret it completely and correctly, since, firstly, it is the faculty of only the realized Souls and great Seers, while the one before you is only an humble seeker and beginner and secondly, it is the subject of one's own practice, one's own self-experience, observation and realization, but with the grace of Param Gurus, the Supreme Masters, only an indication may be made in this direction.
In fact, one will have to find it in deeper integrity of onc's own being after following the path and process as prescribed by the realized Omniscient Masters, Seers and the Adored ones
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