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5. Meditation: Mahavira said, "Just as the head is most important to the body and the roots to a tree meditation is fundamental to all religious practices. Just as fire fanned by powerful winds destroys heaps of firewood in no time so also the fire of mediation destroys heaps of karma in a moment."
To concentrate one's mind upon one subject is meditation. As the mind is scattered over various objects, its powers are fettered away. Meditation helps to increase the power of concentration by making the mind, steady and assists in managing and balancing one's passions. The meditation also helps to reduce vices, which in turn reduces our past bad karmas.
Meditation is the route to knowing. Meditation has power through which the truth would emerge out automatically. With the meditation psychic energy can be sharpened and one attains a higher level of consciousness, which transcends thoughts, where direct experience begins.Meditation cuts the very roots of imagination, thoughts, dreaming, hallucination, and illusion and increases the consciousness level to higher state and the power of conscience can establish link with any object and find out the subtle details.
Mahavira practised unblinking perception by fixing of gaze steadily on a particular material particle quite frequently. He did his experiments in silence and he could made deep enquiry and found explanations. The inner power of enquiry enabled him to recognise the forces of the universe and an order in it. Our sensual perceptions reach only the outer surface that is temporary and transient, the real substance within is permanent and transcendental. The permanent
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