Preksha Dhyana Contemplation and Auto Suggestion

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

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the body, irrefutable, proves that it can never be one's true SELF (which is eternal). Although apparently possessed by ‘ME', it is only a material shell and not the self.
Similarly, the transitory nature of other material possessions can be contemplated and one's delusive attachment to them is terminated or at least reduced.
2. Helplessness:-The eternal truth is that when one dies he leaves behind not only one's body but also one's family, estate and all other material possessions. Noting can save one from the jaws of death, be one a sovereign, a minister or a rich tycoon. One has to seek refuge in divine help.
3. Mundaneness:--The eternal truth is that one's mundane existence is utterly miserable. One is born,dies and is reborn: sometimes as a human being but more often as a sub-human organism. The worldly existence is, thus, a vicious circle of birth, death and rebirth. During one's life-time there is more misery and suffering than pleasure or peace. One has only to contemplate calmly on this eternal wisdom to realise the miserable nature of one's mundane existence.
4. Sultriness:--The truth is that one's existence is utterly solitary. One enters the world alone and leaves it alone. It is one's delusive attachment that makes one feel otherwise. One is really solitary in health and solitary in sickness. By contemplation of this reality, one realises that one is alone, single and separate from all others, one's instincts and impulses, emotions and passions are essentially subjective.
5. Separateness:---In reality, one is separate from everything and everybody. One's own material body is but a transitory association and not one's real self. Hence anything material is also transitorily associated. Pleasure and pain, health and sickness, emotions and passions are separate from one's self. Carnal desires and sensual pleasures are also separate in reality.
6. Uncleanliness:-(of one's body). In reality, one's body is a dirty, filthy and unclean organism. It needs continuous cleaning