Preksha Dhyana Contemplation and Auto Suggestion

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

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one to consider himself (or herself) as a husband (or a wife), father (or a mother) and a patriot citizen and to discharge one's duties faithfully and sincerely. He (or she) should feel bound by umpteen relations as a member of the society. Simultaneously he (orshe) should also feel his or her) solitariness as an individual on transcendental plane. While one is bound to live a soical life, one should not delude onesel that this is the only real life. One must destroy the delusion before the bonds of relationship become indestructible shackles of steel; then it will be very difficult to realise the truth.
As regards the doubts expressed above, it can be emphatically declared that no practitioner of prekşā meditation has ever shirked responsibilities of family or social life or ever broken the code of good conduct or disrupted or repudiated social obligations. Practice of contemplative meditation in general and that of 'Solitariness' in particular enables one to effect equilibrium between his mundane social status and transcendental solitary status.
Thus the doctrine of contemplative meditation is not a theoretical principle but has a practical application as well Regular practice of contemplation enables the practitioner to reach his unconscious mind and establishes the truth and reality therein. that is the Raison D'etre of contemplation. The practitioner must have full faith in the exercise and practice. One who practises systematically is bound to have experience and whatever is realised through a real. experience is stable and perpetually useful. apparently impossible becomes possible as a result of constant practice.
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