Preksha Dhyana Contemplation and Auto Suggestion

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

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tably. At the same time if we totally ignore the other side of the coin - the transcendental reality-this very family and society may create a hundred aches and pains to make one's life miserable. While living comfortably with family and friends, one would be wise to keep the ultimate reality at the back of one's mind. Let the family be in the fore but allow the reality to make up the back-drop. When both are concomitant, passage of life would be happy and free from strife. It is, indeed, essential to be sorrounded by one's kith and kin, friends and society. But, if one accepts their association to be ultimate reality and further believes this to be the only security and guarantee, one is most likely to feel betrayed at some time or another. On the other hand, if one is constantly reminded of the fact that the family etc. are for convenience and expedience, while in reality he is 'alone', and occasionally contemplates on his "Solitariness”, one will never feel betrayed. The faet is that one betrays himself and there is no other betrayer. This is because he betrays himself and there is no other betrayer. this is because one nourishes the falsehood while ignoring the truth - the truth being sacrificed in the interest of comfort. If one would have realised that grouping of persons in the form of family or society is merely a transient association and not an ultimate reality, if one would keep himself reminded of the truth the whole ‘association' and 'relationship' are facts of life in a social background, dissociation and solitariness are also stark realities, the problems would not be confounded and the Raison D'etre of the practice of contemplation is to understand this complicated, diametrically opposite, dual realities of life. Through the exercise of contemplation of solitariness, one comes face to face with the real situation and really experiences_“I am solitary”.
Doubts may be raised that if one is constantly reminded of his soliary status, would it not, one day, result in his withdrawal from the society? Would he not neglect duties and responsibilities as a husband, or a father or a patriot ?Would he not tend to become unsocial? Such doubts are quite reasonable and are likely to disturb one's mind. This complex situation must be considered from all angles. From the social angle, it is quite necessary for
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