Preksha Dhyana Basic Principles

Author(s): Mahapragna Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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2. Complete awareness of one's actions. 3. Un-interrupted (spiritual) vigilance.
Present-minded action is contrary to mechanical (absentminded) action. When one is engaged in doing some thing, it is not proper to be carried away by one's imagination which is not connected with the work in hand.
Habitually, one wastes his time and energy in useless recollection of the past or irrelevant imaginations of the future. But neither the past nor the future is real. Only the present exists and is real. One who lets the present slip away, is never able to re-capture it, and hence, Bhāvakriya is the only means of capturing the reality of the present. It means present-minded action
Bhāvakriya also means complete awareness of one's action. Habitually, again, one thinks with 'half a mind', that is fracturing the mind, and engaging only a piece of it in the work in hand, while the rest of it is allowed to wander about. When the mind is totally engaged by the work in hand, the result is Bhāvakriyā. Synchrony of mind and body saves much waste of efforts and energy, increases efficiency and results in greater success.
Another meaning of Bhāvakriyã is constant vigilance. One must be continuously aware of his ultimate aim, which is twofold : (a) Purification of mind and (b) Awakening the supine Will and other inherent powers.
2. Act-Do not "Re-act”
Habitually we react to external stimuli, that is, we are generally overwhelmed by retaliatary emotional forces within us demanding appropriate action. But, surely this cannot be called "action"; it is, in fact, “re-action". Discipline of the reasoning mind controls the re-active forces and results in appropriate "action", rather than “re-action", One
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