Preksha Dhyana Perception of Psychic Colours

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

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objective of meditational practice. Its aim-in-chief is realization and awareness of one's spiritual self-the real SELF. As long as one is not aware of his real SELF, he cannot end his misery. The only means of eradicating all suffering is realization of Truth-realization and awareness of one's real SELF.
Awakening the Insight
Insight, i.e. the ability to see one's own self, means freedom from the emotional experiences of joy and sorrow. Until and unless one frees oneself from this tinted outlook, one cannnot realise the truth. One may become very learned, an erudite scholar, or may acquire proficiency in theoretical philosophy, but one cannot obtain insight. Truth is synonymous with insight, right faith and right attitude etc. Meditational practice aims at awakening insight so that one can be aware of one's spiritual self, who is the real knower and real seer. A man of science cannot know him, only a sādhaka can do so. By systematic and regular practice of meditation, he (the practitioner) will progressively free his perceptions from the pollution of like and dislike, pleasure and pain. He abandons his role as a 'doer' and assumes the role of 'knower'.
Actual Experience of Self-realisation
Dr. Erwin Schrodinger and other eminent physicists admit that they are still confused about the ultimate unit of material reality and are engrossed in discovering the most elementary particle. But this problem is not of primary importance. The real challenge to the scientists should be: What is consciousnes? Does it exist in its own right? Is reality consciousness or matter or both? Recent research in subatomic Physics has answered many questions regarding the structure of matter. But as regards consciousness, there is much ignorance not only among scientists but also among spiritualists.
Spiritualists tend to solve the riddle of conscious
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