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Means of Self-Realization
a condition of the body (vedanā-janita); and,
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d) yearning and craving for agreable and wanted pleasures and eagerness to defeat enemy (nidānajanita).
The above can be summed up as desiring and craving for what one does not have and worrying about preserving and protecting what one already possesses. This is precisely the psychic state in ārtadhyāna.
It is obvious that one whose mind is always engrossed in the above four sub-types of ārta-dhyāna, cannot concentrate on such other objects as God's image or idol, God's name (japa) or on his own self. One has therefore to try one's best to abandon the above four types of thoughts or worries, which are called inauspicious (aśubha dhyānas).
In Raudra dhyana one's mind is full of intense and destructive passions.A raudra dhyāni would take delight in killing living beings, take pride in oppressing, and hurting others. Such a person is cnvious of other's merits and prosperity, cruel and full of deceit and possessed of such passions as are very very harmful not only twoters but also to the person himself, though he himself does noi realize it. Such a person cannot practise deep and
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