Transmutation of Personality through Preksha Meditation

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

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is why a plan formulated by the Sadhana Centre of Jain Vishva Bharati (Tulsi Adhyatama Needam) has been under active consideration. That plan relates to Jeevan Vigyana (The Science of Living). As long as a student is not acquainted with his life and its depths and leads a mechanical existence, intellect and argumentativeness dominate his life, without any direct experiencing. The chief reason behind the growing problems in today's educational institutions is education devoid of the science of living
I am told that in the educational institutions of Japan, the practice of dhyana is taken up along with academic disciplines. That is why the Japanese display greater devotion to duty; and their sense of responsibility and the desire to fulfil their obligations is much more active. The Japanese workers, labourers, etc. fight for their rights. If their rights are trampled upon, they register their protest, too. But they never stop work. They never destroy public property. They register their protest by tying black ribbons to their arms. By wearing a black ribbon on his sleeve, a worker expresses his dissatisfaction. But these workers never resort to bestial practices like sabotage.
On the other hand, here in our country, the first thing the workers do is to stop working whether there is any strong reason for protest or not. It is difficult to see any rationale behind the acts of destruction and sabotage. And many other unusual practices are resorted to. Undesirable actions will stop only when the mind of the individual is disciplined. Mind-control is very useful, not only on the spiritual level, but on the social level, too. When this is neither taught nor learnt, all social behaviour becomes licentious.
Dhyana exercises control over the mind's licentiousness. He who practises dhyana, will never indulge in anti-social behaviour. That is why dhyana has been
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