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THE MYSTERIES OF MIND
perceptive meditation. Change in the frequencies of breathing and its vibration brings about a spiritual revolution in us which brins human relations on a new footing.
Prekşā meditation is the means of developing four states of the mind.
1. Wakefulness 2. Bhāvanā 3. Thinking 4. Perception.
False consciousness and the fickleness of the mind and body are caused by our lack of willing interest in truth and moral discipline. As our existence undergoes continuous modifications, we become deluded by externel agencies, suggestion and speech and change ourselves in the light of these influences. Attachments and a versions rise in our minds if our mental states are favourable to them. And this applies to our thoughts also. Onr thoughts determine our perceptions. When we become involved in sense objects our feeling, thinking and perception also become involved in them. This is the main cause of all problems and miseries.
The practice of prekşā meditation breaks cur torpor and makes the mind wakefully attached to truth and moral discipline. Such a mind cannot be deluded by anybody. In this respect manțras or charms are very useful. We employ charms to remove mental and physical diseases. We can make ourselves pure with the help of Bhāvanā which can give us mental and physical health. When consciousness has been aroused. holy feelings rise in our minds and make our thought realistic. With such thoughts we proceed to perceive the soul. Feeling, thoughts and perception become immersed in consciousness and the mind becomes free from attachments and aversions and neutral. It stops reacting. This is the way to get rid of all problems and miseries.
Fales consciousness makes us indulge in sense pleasures. This happens at the lexel of the unconscious. We become
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