Preksha Dhyana Self Awareness by Relaxation

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

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the next step is to suspend the action of the more subtle internal smooth muscles, But as long as the flow of vital energy is active and the wandering of the mind continues, • total staticity of the body cannot be realised. All subtle as well as gross movements of the body are caused by the haphazard flow of vital energy and the scattered activity of the mind. If the stream of vital energy and the flow of thoughts are canalised and turned towards self-arwareness and self- realisation, the muscles will calm down. This is beacuse the impulses, which activated and excited the muscles and which were generated by mental unsteadiness, are no longer available. Once the body is totally motionless, it can be cast off, and the purpose of Kayotsarg fulfilled.
Cast off the Body and Realize the Self
Kāyotsarg is not merely relaxation of the muscles but actual experience and awareness of the real, non-material self, quite apart from the material, non-self i.e. body. Total relaxation is essential and precedes this experience the body is only a shell and the SELF can free itself from this.
State of total relaxtion is the state of 'seeing' and “knowing and leads to self-realisation.
Physical Body-the Scapegoat
Kāyotsarg is the process to search and find the rootcause of all miseries and sufferings. The gross physical body is the medium for perception of suffering or its manifestation but not its root cause. The root cause is the subtlemost body called karma-šarira. In the state of Kāyotsarg one is able to detect and identify the root cause of mundane suffering. And once this truth is known, there is a fundamental change in the attitude towards the gross body.
1. Karma-šarira is the coded record of one's past deeds. It operates under
the law of action and reaciton, cause and effect. The law of karma is immutable.
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