Transmutation of Personality through Preksha Meditation

Author(s): Tulsi Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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Basically, the whole process constitutes an effort to migrate from the gross to the subtle, from the visible to the invisible world. Gross sound produces gross vibrations and subtle sound produces subtle vibrations. Subtle vibrations are far more powerful than the gross ones. Nevertheless, in the initial stages of bringing about a change, gross vibrations have a role to play. But in the higher stages it is necessary to move towards subtle vibrations, because the state of meditation can be attained only through these. Loud japa is gross; low-toned japa is an advance upon the former; at the level of mental japa, the distance between knowledge and the word disappears. Here language and thought get very near to each other. In gross vibrations, language and thought function separately.
Subtle vibrations awaken the psychic centres situated in the human body. Although the entire system of the body is affected by these, some centres of consciousness are specially activated. For example-the Centre of Energy, the Centre of Bio-electricity, the Centre of Purity, the Centre of Intuition and the Centre of Wisdom*.
• In the system of preksha meditation, psychic centres are associated with the endocrine glands as under:
Psychic Centres
1. Centre of Energy
2. Centre of Health
Gonads
3. Centre of Bio-electricity Adrenal, Pancreas.
4. Centre of Bliss
5. Centre of Purity 6. Centre of Celibacy 7. Centre of Vital Energy 8. Centre of Vision 9. Centre of Vigilance 10. Centre of Intuition
Endocrine Glands Gonads
Islets of Langerhans Thymus Thyroid, Parathyroid Sense organ' of Taste Sense organ of Smell Sense organ of Sight Sense organ of Hearing Pituitary
11. Centre of Enlightenment Pineal
12. Centre of Peace
13. Centre of Wisdom
Hypothalamus Cerebral Cortex
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Location
Bottom end of the spinal cord
Lower abdomen Navel
Near the heart Adam's apple-throat
Tongue (Tip) Nose (Tip)
Eyes Ears
Middle of the eyebrows Centre of the forehead Front part of the head Top of the head