Meditation and Jainism

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

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Self) until the previously bound - accumulated - Karnias get destroyed".
--(26) THE UNIFICATION : COMMUNION WITH THE
SUPER EXISTENCE :
And here follows the expansion of the abovereferred definition of Dhyana : Meditation : & Yoga : Communion
According to Acharya Hemachandra, Jain Yoga indicates to commune and unite : the Communion and Unification of the Soul with the Super-Soul (Paramatma, YUJYATE ITI YOGAH".
-(27)
In other words, there follows the transformation of the soul from "JIVA" to "SHIVA" (Godhood) in course of long Sadhana-practice, by meditation upon the purest self and supreme self, just as the transformation of the butterfly from a small insect.
FURTHER CLASSIFICATION OF VARIED
FORMS & TYPES OF DHYANAS :
The previousiy referred four types of Dhyanas(Artta, Roudra, Dharma, Shukla) are further classified as under : 1) Artta Dhyana : There are four parts or symptoms
of it: 11 ISHTA VIYOGA: The separation from the
dear ones. 2] ANISHTA SAMYOGA: Contacts and Unions
with the Undesired ones 3] ROGA VICHARA : Worries of Diseases, etc. 4] AGRA SHOCH (SHOKA): Grief and sorrowful
thinknig.
2) Roudra Dhyana : It also has four parts or forms. 1] HIMSA : Violence or killing : thought of
mentally.
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