Self Awareness Through Meditation

Author(s): Ranjitsingh Kumat
Publisher: Ranjitsingh Kumat

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DHYANA IN ACHAARANGA SUTTA HINTS OF VIPASSANA
Sahiye Dhammamaadaayan seyan samanupassayi Observe the incoming of Dhamma as well as of honor with equanimity.stanza 64
Sahiye dukkhamattaye puttho no Jhanjhaye Bear the pain with equanimity; do not get stressed.—stanza 66
Paasiman daviye loyaaloya—pavanchao muchchayi Observer of the truth is freed from the hassles of the world and beyond. - stanza 67
The foregoing sermons clearly bring out the fact that one has to become a mere observer of things and phenomena as they are, without being affected by passions like greed or anger if one wants to get rid of the suffering. The craving and aversion has to give way to equanimity. To be able to observe things as they are without craving and aversion, one becomes perfect in the art of mediation. One has to go in the deep recesses of mind, make oneself a sharp observer of sensations, thoughts and feelings arising and disappearing. One can then see the different passions of anger, greed, ego when they pop up and by being detached observer one can get over them. As an uncaring and negligent observer one can easily be swept away and lose the track. Through meditation, one can lucidly observe the cycle of birth, death, the suffering and the cause of suffering. Person who has grasped the cause of suffering, knows the remedy and thus can get rid of it very soon. In the fourth Uddeshya of the third chapter a long chain of cause of suffering has been explained which is quite revealing and instructive and hence reproduced below:
One who sees the anger, sees the ego. One who sees the ego, sees the fraud. One who sees the fraud, sees the greed. One who sees the greed, sees the craving. One who sees the craving, sees the aversion One who sees the aversion, sees the attachment One who sees the attachment sees the womb or embryo. One who sees the embryo sees the birth One who sees the birth, sees the death One who sees the death, sees the hell One who sees the hell, sees the animal kingdom One who sees the animal kingdom sees the suffering64