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modifications and becomes motionless. This state is the ideal of our pilgrimage. We can arrive at this state through meditation. If these processes could be stopped even for a few moments, the moments should be construed as moments beyond mental and physical processes. They encourage us to proceed towards our ideal.
We live in the gravitational field of the earth. If we could enter into a state of weightlessness even for a few moments, we would think that life has begun a new for us.
We have either good thoughts or evil thoughts or no thoughts at all in our minds. Similarly we do either good deeds or bad deeds or no deeds at all. Thoughts are mental processes. As processes they do not differ from each other. Both are waves. Generally we believe that physical objects have colour, form, sound, heat etc. A scientist does not think in these terms. For him objects have neither colour nor form nor sound nor heat. He thinks of the world in terms of time and energy. The world is a process of energy in time. Energy is the substance of which the entire universe is made. Therefore, thinking, wheather we think good or bad thoughts, is a process of energy. If our purpose is to arrive at a state beyond these processes, the first thing we have to do is to rescue ourselves from bad processes and to swim with the good processes. Swim with the bad processes takes us away from our goal which is the obliteration of all activity.
Lèśyā meditation is the easiest means of swimming with the good current. You can not turn your thoughts in the right direction without this meditation. Social relations are the breeding ground of all kinds of evils, more especially mental evils. They force us to react. We can not get rid of the life of reations without meditating on auspicious colourations (leśjas). There are three auspicious leśyās called taijasa (deep red), padma (pink) and śuklu (white). We can change our mentality by meditating on these Taśyās. With the change of mentality these colours also begin to change. The outer world then begins to influence the inner world and vice versa.
Thoughts are produced either by internal tendencies or by sounds prevailing in the sky. Pudgal (material) particles
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