Self Awareness Through Meditation

Author(s): Ranjitsingh Kumat
Publisher: Ranjitsingh Kumat

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SELF AWARENESS THROUGH MEDITATION
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3. Craving to get back the welcome things or persons that have been lost. 4. Craving to get welcome things and persons.
Craving results in crying. Person cries when his beloved things or persons are lost as also when he fails to acquire the sought after things. Crying for loss of cherishable things is natural but a person tries to get luxuries and flamboyant articles in abundance, make name and fame and appear unique, accumulate riches and become the richest man ever etc. All these require endless efforts and one can spend one's lifetime in their pursuit and yet at the end it will prove futile because the things accumulated will not last for ever nor will go with him after his death. All the worldly things we crave for are ephemeral and the cravings are limitless. We are always crying to get more and more and this type of constant craving and crying is called “Aarta Dhyana” or Meditation for Craving. There are four symptoms of this type of meditation:
1. Crying 2. Grief 3. Tears 4. Lamentation
Roudra Dhyana or Meditation for Evil doing
Roudra means to be evil and to do things that are heinous or atrocious. When we start thinking evil, we think of doing things that are violent which includes stealing, telling lies and to do anything (violent or otherwise) to protect what is near and dear to us. Accordingly, the Roudra Dhyana is of four types:
1. Evil contemplation to do violent things. 2. Evil contemplation to do things which are not true. 3. Evil contemplation to commit theft. 4. Evil contemplation to protect things or person.
This type of Dhyana has four symptoms:
1. Asanna Dosha or Single evil—To be committed to doing only one
type of evil like violence. 2. Bahul Dosha or Multiple evils—To be engaged in many types of evils
like violence, stealing, etc. 3. Agyana Dosha or Evil doing due to ignorance