Training in Nonviolence

Author(s): Mahapragna Acharya
Publisher: Anuvrat Global Organization

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Training for the Transformation of the Heart
application. They learn the methodology to cause alterable conditions in society or in an individual. How can the mind be concentrated? How can its restiveness be overcome? There are many ways. Colour meditation is one of them. Perception of Chaitanya Kendra is another. Perception of the body is yet another way. Perceiving or seeing something is an effective method for concentrating. Thinking is not that effective a method as seeing is. Thinking is the function of the mind. It agitates the mind and makes it unsteady. Both thinking and restiveness go together. Thinking cannot go on without restiveness and restiveness cannot sustain itself without thinking. Thinking is a form or a mode. Observing is another form. In observation there is no unsteadiness. To see and to know mean freedom from sensitivity, which creates unsteadiness. Knowledge and philosophy, perceiving and knowing eliminate mind's fickleness or restiveness.
Perception is an important element. The modern perception or modern philosophy is dominated by intelligence and logic. This kind of philosophy leads a man astray and doesn't help him to reach his destination. The basic meaning of philosophy is the realization of the self. Where there is direct experience, the whole world comes to an end and all barriers disappear. The distance between the known and the knowable is abolished. Here the knower knows the knowable directly, intimately and closely. Both become one. This is the ancient philosophy - the basic philosophy. I am discussing this very philosophy. Preksha Dhyana is a practical experiment of philosophy. It is a process to realize the self. In colour meditation we suggest visualizing white colour on jyoti kendra (center of light), green colour on anand kendra (center of bliss) and blue colour on vishuddh kendra (center of purity). You may wonder how a person will be able to visualize colours with his eyes closed. We have faith in eyes but we must have a new dimension of our faith. We must extend our faith and realize that seeing with eyes is a small thing. We have infinite power. We can see even without eyes and experience that the whole cosmos is full of colours.
All the types of colours that we have in this world have their causative atoms that fill the entire universe. When we close our eyes and begin to feel with deep concentration and profound state of meditation, various kinds of colours appear. Even when eyes are closed, brilliant colours appear on the screen of our inner mind. They look so beautiful and attractive that cannot be imagined by our eyes. In a meditative state we experience and perceive all these colours.
Through perception dormant modes manifest themselves and covered modes uncover themselves. Then begins a cycle of events happening before our own eyes all by themselves. Both the events of the material world and the events of the inner world begin to appear in succession. The events, which take place in our inner world, which we never experienced directly before, appear on the screen of our mind rapidly when we close our eyes and achieve mental concentration. They take the concrete form in our mind. Even the events of the material world begin to dance before our closed eyes.
Let us feel that our consciousness is not confined to our senses only. Moreover, we should also realize that the real consciousness is more expansive than what we get from the senses. Our consciousness is infinite. It has no end. It is without
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