Transmutation of Personality through Preksha Meditation

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

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research and education are going on side by side. Education and research policies also change and are being refined. There has been a tremendous progress in the field of education. However, it seems to me that all our institutions of education and research are not able to impart a new vision capable of resolving the present-day problems. A third essential component is missing. That is sadhana, the practice of meditation. Without sadhana, our education remains incomplete. However much one may study, the restlessness of the mind is not reduced thereby. Until a student's mind is clean, peaceful, he will not be able to acquire the capacity for resolving the problems encountered by him. That is why it was thought that education, research and sadhana should be pursued together. Education and research occupy a second position in this conception; sadhana holds the first place. Had sadhana not been accorded the primary importance here, the new idea would not have been much valuable, because education and research without sadhana have been going on for a long time.
For implementing the idea of coordinating education, research and sadhana, our community established the institution called Jain Vishva Bharati. This institute is situated in Ladnun town of Nagore District in Rajasthan (India). Still another programme-that of seryice-has been added to the disciplines of education, research and sadhana. Thus, Jain Vishva Bharati has become a centre of foursome activity. The foremost among these is sadhana--training, experimentation and practice thereof.
Dhyana is an indispensable part of education. If education is separated from dhyana, it degenerates into mere statistics. An education without dhyana, loses contact with life, and is incapable of bringing about a change in everyday living or any improvement in character. That
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