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and they inculcate in the sādhaka forgiveness, nonattachment and knowledge. 128 They help the sādhaka remain stable in dharma dhyāna, which means being far away from raudra dhyāna and ārta dhyāna. Śrīmad has also given a very useful hint by suggesting that in case one cannot get rid of or forget some thought pertaining to ārta dhyāna, one should do the act and do away with that. Śrīmad has laid down a process of meditation. 129 Some of the important 'steps are as follows: The basic thing required to be followed is to be able to sit ( or even lie ) in padmāsana or some comfortable posture and be stable or immovable in that posture without making any bodily movements and concentrating attention first on the naval and in the chest and then from there to the space between two eye-brows or the centre of the fore- head.
It may be remembered that whatever process onc may adopt, one has to study and practise the above mentioned sixteen types of meditation or contemplations or reflections for real progress in meditation. In addition to those sixteen, one should cultivatc the following four attitudes (bhāvanā) :
· 1) Muiiri (Friendship) : to be assectionate towards all living beings-no hatred or enmity towards any being
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