Self Awareness Through Meditation

Author(s): Ranjitsingh Kumat
Publisher: Ranjitsingh Kumat

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SELF AWARENESS THROUGH MEDITATION
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of experience of sensation. The awareness of impermanence is all pervading and is reflected in walking, bending, chewing, and drinking, sleeping, wearing robes, attending to call of nature, talking and even in silence.
In Anguttara Nikaaya a verse comes which conveys as follows:
"Let one walk with awareness, stand with awareness, sit with awareness and lie down with awareness. Let the meditator bend with awareness, stretch with awareness, upwards, across, backwards, as long as he is in the course of the world, observing the arising and passing away of the aggregates."103
Thus the emphasis is on the continuity of awareness of impermanence with the base of body sensations.
Sampajanna is of four types
1. Saarthaka Sampajanna—(purposeful Sampajanna) where one is aware
as to what is useful and what is not. 2. Sappaya Sampajanna—(Beneficial Sampajanna) where one knows in
totality for one's own benefit with wisdom. The most beneficial thing for a meditator is to move on the path which leads to the attainment
of nibbana or liberation. 3. Gocara Sampajannam—(Domain Sampajannam)—Gocara literally
means the area where cow moves but in this context means the body in which the meditator meditates or the places where the meditator moves. And the meditator is constantly aware of impermanence of
sensations in his body as also the places where he goes for begging etc. 4. Asammoha Sampajanna (Delusion free Sampajanna)—The term
asammoha means non-delusion or without ignorance. It refers to nonignorance and having thorough understanding of what is happening both inside and outside of the body. The realization of impermanence is asammmoha (non-delusion) and once that has dawned on the meditator, he is beyond these worldly attractions and temptations.
Conclusion—Full Understanding of Sensations (Vedana Parigyana)
Knowing the sensations fully and in all their aspects is the way to cessation of sensation or vedana and thus the cessation of suffering.