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meditation against others and adverse meditation within one’s
self, respectively) do occur because of the pressures of the
current time cycle but the Lord has given us purusharth as a
weapon with which we can remove them both. This is like eating
food that is beneficial for you and rejecting food which is not.
Similarly, you have to remove artadhyan and raudradhyan and
do dharmadhyan (absence of both forms of adverse meditation).
Artadhyan – Raudradhyan
Questioner : What is artadhyan and what is raudradhyan?
Dadashri : Any contemplation, even in the slightest
degree, of depriving others of their happiness, is called
raudradhyan. Even if you do not actually carry out the act of
depriving someone, the mere contemplation of doing so is
considered raudradhyan. The consequence of raudradhyan is a
life in hell (narkagati).
Artadhyan is when you experience problems created by
others or internal worries which you keep to yourself, where you
tell no one and where you show no anger. Nowadays it is hard
to find a person who has just artadhyan alone. Raudradhyan is
rampant everywhere. In the current time cycle of Kaliyug,
artadhyan and raudradhyan have also infested places of religion
and worship. Hence the ascetics constantly experience artadhyan
and raudradhyan. Getting upset with a disciple is raudradhyan
and experiencing internal irritation and suffering is artadhyan. It
is tremendous raudradhyan when a maharaj is preoccupied with
thoughts of other maharaj having twenty-five disciples when he
has only a few. It is terrible raudradhyan when one is
preoccupied with increasing the number of his disciples. How
can conduct like this compliment the throne of Lord Mahavir?
One has entered a race course. The Fools! They leave behind
three ‘bells’ (wife and two children) that hang around their necks
and hang one hundred and eight (disciples) more! How can you
call this the path of the vitarags?