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guard us. We are all alone and we have to bear the fruits of our deeds
on our own. No one can protect us from the results of our deeds. d. Sansaraanupreksha—(To feel and understand the true nature of the
world). One feels and understands the true nature of this world—the interaction between the living and the non-living, and the causation of moving in the chain of birth and death and how to get out of it.
Shukla Dhyana—Meditation par excellence
This is the meditation of the highest type and can be attained with effort and practice. This is also of four types:
a. Prithakatva vitarka savichaari—Meditation with discrimination and
thought. b. Ekatva vitarka nirvichari—Meditation with discrimination but without
contemplation. Sukshama Kriya Anivritti—Meditation with very slight activity but
without End. d. Vyuparat Kriya Nivritti—The End of Activity and Attainment of
Freedom.
It is given in the scriptures that out of these four types of Shukla Dhyana, first two types of meditation can be done by one whose attachment with the world has totally evaporated whereas the last two categories are available only to those who have become fully omniscient or what Jain scriptures call “Kewal Gnani”. Those who become enlightened and omniscient are fully detached from the world and are in the third stage of Shukla Dhyana. When such ‘Kewal Gnani” or fully enlightened person leaves the terrestrial body and attains Moksha, it is in the last few moments that he attains the last stage of Shukla Dhayana.
Let us now discuss the four types of Shukla Dhyana in detail.
Prithakatva vitarka savichaari—Meditation with Discrimination and thought
The meditation is on any one object or parts of it including our body in its different aspects, segregating and analysing each aspect to its minutest detail and examine it from different angles because truth is multi-faceted. In
