Pristine Jainism

Author(s): S M Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith

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Code of Conduct : (67) Arta dhyānai.e. ruminating, recollecting, pondering over the past pleasant and unpleasant experiences and having wishful thinking for future.
Raudra dhyāna i.e. having violent, falsehood, stealing, consumeristic and indulgence thoughts and emotions. Dharma dhyāna i.e. good, religious, pious and compassionate thoughts. Shukla dhyāna i.e. perfectly pure thoughts about soul and matter without any attachment and also repulsion to anything.
There are sub classifications of all above four meditational processes to clarify and explain the details for the practitioners and followers. The emphasis is to control anything bad or evil at the level of its first origin in mind so that these do not get translated in speech and actions for every moment in life and not for only a specified time frame. One should concentrate on the work or activity of mind, speech and body one is engaged in so that it is done carefully and properly at every point of time. What generally happens is that mind is wandering somewhere else even more than 40 to 60% and the result is that the particular work is not done carefully and therefore is performed badly. This is what happens in road accidents. Concentration at every moment of time during every activity as ordained in Jainism is the only solution to avoid wrong. Likewise happiness, pain or sorrow are mere states of mind than real. Many people make wry faces while shaving, bathing, eating and other activities. Since one has to carry out his various activities he should do so with pleasure, rational attitude of mind. If prescriptions of Jainism about meditation are observed one will not be unhappy and most accidents and wrongs can be avoided.. To progress from first, second to third and fourth stages it requires arduous effort and practice and during the process intensive efforts to recollect teachings for disciplining the thoughts are made at least twice, thrice, four, five or more times every day for specified period of an hour or so. This effort