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Means of Self-Realization Śrīmad in his book 'Mokṣa-mālā' has dealt elaborately with the type of meditation called dharmadhyāna in Jainism, in chapters 74 to 76 and explained many details which are to be practised to succeed in meditation and to realize and achieve internal and real happiness and peace.
Dharma-dhyāna :
Tattvāṛthasūtra has defined each of the four types of dhyāna and made further sub-divisions; the most imortant type of dhyāna for our purpose is dharmadhyāna. It is necessary to remember that there are some important pre-requisites and practices, which are essential for forming necessary mental background for making some progress in meditation. First part of these practices relate to negative practices and second part to positive practices. In other words we can express this whole concept as follows :
There is firstly, stopping of the influx of inauspicious (aśubha) karmas and secondly, stopping of the influx of auspicious (subha) karmas and finally after stopping all influxes, setting the self in its own nature (ātmabhāva).
Karma-particles (karma-bandha) are attracted
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