Sannyasa Dharma

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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SANNYASA DHARMA
prop from unwavering dharma dhyana for its steadiness.
The merit of sukla dhyana is that it by itself suffices to destroy the forces of delusion and evil and every form of karmic obstruction in an incredibly short interval of time; but it is only attained with the greatest difficulty. All the tapascharuna (ascetic severity) and the curbing of physical longings, and of the mental impulsions and urgings, are needed only to enable the yogi (ascetic) to attain to the necessary degree of unshakable, unwavering, fixity of contemplative attention that will remain absolutely unmoving and unmoved, in the midst of all kinds of causes of disturbance. Here also dharma dhyana is found to be of the greatest help, and an unfailing weapon for the destruction of all kinds of longings, pleasure. seeking impulses and even the greatest of passions.
To understand sukla dhyana properly, it is necessary to note that meditation of the spiritual type is possible in three different ways, namely,
(1) with the aid of speech, that is words,
(2) with the aid of the mind, that is mental pictures, and
(3) with the aid of the body, i.e., by feeling the pulsation of life, in other words, by 'sensing' the being of one's Spiritual Self or Spirit, in certain parts of the body, e.g., the nervous plexus of the heart or the tip of the nose.
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