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Q. The capacity for meditation and general proficiency
may be different in different persons. There are also various techniques of meditation. Because of the difference in techniques, the results could also be different. But the body which is the medium of sadhana, is very much alike in the case of every individual. Hitherto, the practitioners of meditation have repeatedly observed the body from within and without. Mahavir too practised body-perception. Yet no one has talked about the psychic centres. What, according to you, are the psychic centres? Were these identified in the past ages or not?
Ans. The psychic centres are no new discovery. Who
- ever have delved into the depths of meditation, have found their psychic centres awakened. Of course, it is very difficult to determine the precise number of these centres. There are innumerable centres of consciousness. Only a few of these centres can be known and activated. Activated psychic-centres connote certain parts of the body rendered absolutely clean and spotless like crystal. The Hindi word for it is 'karan', which means charging the body with special energy and rendering it super-functional. To render the body 'super-functional means, to utilize the special energy thus developed. Our sense organs are 'functional, because it is through them that we apprehend objects. We see through the eye, hear through the ear, smell through the nose. These parts perform their functions and are, therefore, 'functional'. In that sense, the body, too, is functional. What is primarily meant by this is that we can make the whole body super-functional; after it becomes 'super-functional', any part of the body may be used to see, to hear, to taste. We can then see, speak or hear with the eyes. This is very much like multiple comprehension or extensional awareness mentioned in the Agamas. If the whole body
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