Meditation and Jainism

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

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on ancient spiritual mystical Yogic synthetic pra -ctices. It is intended to help the upbringing of total INTERNAL unfoldment and development. As such, so far as this music is concerned, the internal aspects of the “Being' are much more important than the external or the social ones. In the present times of tensions, hurry, speed and terrific race for Various endless cravings, when the man has lost his inner consciousness, awareness, poise and speed, this music enables one's inward journey and Internal Transformation. In the process of this experiment, one has a start from the staircase of external ‘AHAT' (audible) sounds and to gradually reach unto the internal ANAHAT' (physically inaudible) sounds - the natural, harmonizing, everlasting, ever-existing blissful and Supreme Music of the Being, of the Realised Soul, of the Divine. !
Music for Meditation is the language of the Silent Self on one hand and that of the craving spirit on the other. It is a language which springs from the depths of one's being, as it has been call ed in the Upanishadic Terms as “Para". It should come out firstly from the 'Nabhi' and then from the centres of the Heart and Voice while singing Similarly it shoul lead the listener from the Ears to the Heart and from the Heart' to deep centres of the Nabhi awakening the trans-bring ing and transforming vibrations. It should carry one from the outer planes to inner planes, from the external to internal. Unless such a language comes out from deep Nabbi, Heart & Voice through the media of music and unless it unites
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