Mysteries of Mind

Author(s): Mahapragna Acharya
Publisher: Today and Tomorrows Book Agency

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THE MYSTERIES OF MIND
when the practitioner becomes illuminated by the tèjoleśyā at the conclusion of arta-raudra meditation and at the beginning of dharma dhyana. He then enters into the enclave of the padmalēśyā or yellow coloration of the soul. His consciousness begins to expand and he begins meditation on the red colour and the ājñā cakra. The next object to be meditated upon is is the sahasrara cakra which belongs to the field of śukla dhyāna or meditation of the white colour. There is perfect harmony in this meditation. This is a completely illumined area and once the meditator has entered into this area, mental tendencies calm down and the pollution of the soul comes to an end resulting in the purity of the heart. Dharma leśyā (auspicious coloration) is the entrance door of the spiritual realm. It should, however, be noted that all the inauspicious colorations of the soul do not disappear all of a sudden. They disappear by and by.
Tendencies which were active in the past and the influx of their effects into the soul exert a continuous resisting pressure on the practitioner, but they do not reach a point of fruition any more because the sex-centres have no more active energy left in them. It has become transferred to other centres. In such a state sex, jealousy, hatred and likes and dislikes become totally ineffective.
The fruition of action, its capacity to produce effects on the mind, depends upon circumstances favourable to it. Unsupported by instrumental causes it succumbs and fails to produce effects. One of the consequences of the ascent of vital energy is that the force of tendencies and impulses becomes spent up. In the course of the self-exertion of the practitioner they disappear completely. All this is brought about by tapa or austerities.
The practitioner is advised to shake off his body, the actional tendencies and the entire kärmic body. He is called upon to uproot his natural inclinations, attachments and aversions, passions and all the foreign matter which has entered or is in the process of entering into his self. Hunger, fear, sexuality and thc acquisitive tendencies are associated with the desire for sensual pleasures. Anger, pride, deceit and