Self Awareness Through Meditation

Author(s): Ranjitsingh Kumat
Publisher: Ranjitsingh Kumat

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SELF AWARENESS THROUGH MEDITATION
against the common experience. If they say that they do not want pain then it proves that no being wants pain.
"Pain is disliked by all beings and it is horrendous”. This is the most potent argument in favor of non-violence and it is based not on any imagination or arguable philosophy but on universal experience which is factual and irrefutable.
Dhamma is the truth, the fact and one should know as it is. That is the “Samyaktva' or equanimity or Right Understanding.
Let us examine the Sutta as translated below:
“Know the Dhamma (the nature) as it is Do not grasp it, nor leave it, Remain mere observer, Have no craving for this world, One who does not have craving, what else has he got? Nothing. This is what has been observed, experienced and is well known, Those who are engrossed (with this world) take birth again and again, Remain patiently alert for the commands appearing (when one becomes inward looking) Wakeful is always endeavoring. Non-wakeful is engrossed in the outside world.”67
Nobody can judge any act, thing, event or person from one angle. Truth is multifaceted and one has to judge in relation to context, time, intent etc. Here is what has been said:
“Whatever is the cause of Ashrava (the cause of inflow of new Karmas or sins) is also the cause of Anashrava (the cause of blocking the inflow of new Karmas) “Whatever is the cause of Anashrava becomes Aparishrava (the cause of inflow of Karmas) and whatever is the Aparishrava (the incoming of Karmas) becomes Anashrava (non-inflow of Karmas)"
One who knows, examines the commands, analyzing part by part separately”. 68