Self Awareness Through Meditation

Author(s): Ranjitsingh Kumat
Publisher: Ranjitsingh Kumat

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SELF AWARENESS THROUGH MEDITATION
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inner voice and command, one gets prompted to practise it and that is known as 'interest in command' and the meditation of that kind is called 'meditation to consider command'.
‘Apaayavichaya' or the Meditation to consider the Undesirable
To examine and consider what is undesirable or heinous is called Apaayavichaya' type of Dhamma Dhayana. When one concentrates and meditates, different types of thoughts come; some are good and some are bad. If we go along with the thoughts, we will end up in first two types of meditation namely, Aarta or Roudra Dhayana. It is not unnatural to have thoughts which are a result of craving or aversion but to go along with them is undesirable. To be able to segregate and watch such thoughts and allow them to go away without giving rise to craving and aversion is the way to get rid of undesirable thoughts. This is called the ‘Apaayavichaya' type of Dhamma Dhyana. The distinct feature of this type of Dhyana is ‘Nisaraga Ruchi' or ‘interest in the natural. If one watches one's thoughts or events as they are and does not interfere with them or go along with them, he is with the nature and so he is in a state of watchfulness and thus gets rid of the undesirable thoughts without any effort.
“Vipaakavichaya' or the Meditation to Consider the Results
It has been defined as an act of considering and understanding the results of one's karma or action. There is a well built theory of Karma in the Jain Scriptures and to consider and think on implications and results of all Karma is called “Vipaakavichaya' type of Dhamma Dhyana. It is humbly submitted that when a person meditates on one's own body and examines and introspects each and every part of the body separately, one experiences different types of sensations on the body; some of them are pleasant, some unpleasant and some neutral. One is bound to feel happy when one encounters pleasant sensation and unhappy when it is unpleasant. But during meditation one has to practice equanimity between pleasant and unpleasant sensation realizing that all these are different aspects of one's own past actions or feelings and we should not promote craving or aversion towards the pleasant and unpleasant sensations. This type of development of understanding for the sensations on different parts of the body is truly called “Vipaakavichaya” or meditation to understand the impact of one's actions, thought and feelings'. The symbol