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PRABUDDH JEEVAN
JULY 2017
Sway the strings of cognizance and release
the hymn from within you...
O Prachi Dhanwant Shah
Every instant of our life, a pirouette of emotion brains. With meticulous and faithful meditational emanates in the ocean of our heart and mind, which practice, one can rheostat the functional and structural leads to some action and reaction. Every moment, more changes in our brain. than the spoken words, unspoken words surge through As you know, Jainism and Buddhism are the religion our minds. One word of thought leads to another and which can be vindicated scientifically. Every practice another to yet another and this chain of thought process and ritual has a scientific attitude to it and is certainly entangles our mind from which it gets impossible to more intrigue and enthralling for the current entangle oneself at some point of time in life. These comprehensive generation to implement and pursue words are disheveled with emotions. Emotions filled Jainism. Dhyan / Meditation occupy a very with judgment and evaluations of a situation or an predominant place in Jain methodology. Although, the individual. And as we lead our life in this intricate society, Jain approach to meditation is purely philosophical and the complexity of dealing with these emotions become psychological. Meditation is nothing but engaging your a provocation and a concern. Leaving us with nothing mind in a particular thought. Nevertheless, a human but agony, discontent, and desolation.
mind is engaged in colossal thoughts constantly. But Although, emotions are not farcical but retain the subject of these thoughts when addressed on the scientific and biological reasoning. These emotions are arenas of Dhyan / meditation, the outcome will be connected to neurons abounding in our brains. We advantageous and favourable. survive with a range of emotions like annoyance, One of the forms of Meditation widely compassed pleasure, grief and much more. For instance, if you throughout the world is Vipassana. My father was a are driving, and the driver of the neighbouring car staunch admirer and adherent of Vipassana meditation annoys you, it might trigger your "anger neurons" and and always heartened us to attend Vipassana camps. it increases your blood pressure, you retort to it by This element of my life coerces me today to beam shouting, yelling and experience the heat of ferocity brightness on this subject on this platform. I seek your within you. Similarly, when any of your loved one bids countenance to do so... you adieu, it triggers your "sadness neurons" and your V ipassana is the oldest form of meditation pioneered stomach twinges, feel anguish. You react by crying by, "I may call it so", an inordinate scientist, Gautama and snivel over it. Science explains these emotions the Buddha. History reveals that preaching's of this underline a specific property or "essence" in our brain meditation blossomed by Buddha was practiced widely or body. Although scientists are still working on this in India and Burma. But unfortunately, it dimmed over and researching to qualify justification and acceptance a period of time in India. But, fortuitously the roots of to these cognitive. If you observe from my Vipassana held strong to the grounds in Burma and perspectives, we are letting the forces around us was practiced thereby extensively. The spirit was alive control and shape our brain and emotions about which and it was just time to captivate it and bring it to India. we are not aware or may be dimly aware. The question Late Shri S.N.Goenka was the one to reintroduce this arises, is there any approach to tackling these practice of meditation in India. He was the virtuous man emotions by not countering radically to it, such that it who gave the gift of Vipassana, with which generation would not impact and disturb our day to day life and in India was destitute of, and now Vipassana - a way exploit the amity of existence. The answer is "Yes", of meditation is broadly spread all over the world. It and the cure is meditation, dhyana, yoga. Exploration might surprise you, but the methodology of Vipassana over the period, advocate that intense and staunch meditation is also available for today's technology meditators can control and direct these external forces savvy generation by means of an application on around them methodically and not let it influence their smartphones. Although, to experience the true
