Meditation and Jainism

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

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INTERNAL VOYAGE :
The process and path of the above-indicated four - fold meditation (Shukla - Prashashta or Atma Dhyana) is entirely an internal voyage. It wonderfully goes on with unutterable joy with in, from siage to stage. If the seeker is fortunnate enough to acquire the guidance and shelter of a Self-realized Master and ready to follow commands and prescriptions, if he has enormous faith in the teachings of this Master&the Supreme Masters : The Param Gurus : The omniscient Arhatas, and if he is determined with the analytic quest and discrimination of the true form of the Self, he is bound to attain the immediate as well as ultimate results and destinations of this unusual voyage. The immediate result is living in the PRESENT with unbound Joy' and the ultimate destination is the Realization and Liberation of the Self.
FROM "AHAM" TO "ARHAM" :
The main obstacle in the above - referred Internal Voyage is Aham (Ego). Unless it is totally eradicated in its subtlest form, this voyage can not commence at all. If it is done away with by replacing it with surrenderful humble attitude of emptiness-egolessness zeroness, the Naham, then the pilgrimage from Aham to Arham (The omniscient State) is certain. This pilgrimage has to pass through the discrimi native, investigative, analytic stages of Koham (who Am I?) unto Soham (l am that, the eternal
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