[ 2 ] Dhyan ( Meditation )
What is meditation ( dhyan )? Meditation is not something that one has to ‘ do ’. Meditation ( dhyan ) happens naturally . Meditation is a result . What the world calls meditation , is not meditation ( dhyan ), but it is concentration ( ekagrata ).
Vitarags ( the fully enlightened beings who have no attachment or abhorrence ), have described four types of meditation : When someone insults you , and you experience wrath at that time , the resulting anger is called raudradhyan ( adverse internal meditation that hurts the self and others ), and the effect of this result will hurt the ‘ self ’ and will reach others ! However , if it affects only you and no one else , then it is artadhyan ( adverse internal meditation that hurts the self ). Artadhyan also comprises worries such as , “ What will become of me ?” and worries about the future , etc .
In events that cause an effect on us , when a person regards them as : “ This is the manifestation of the unfolding of my own karma . The other person is simply instrumental ( nimit ) in it ; he is faultless ( nirdosh )”; when such a state results within , it is called dharmadhyan ( virtuous meditation ; absence of artadhyan or raudradhyan ). If it remains in one ’ s awareness ( laksha ) that , “ I am pure Soul ( Shuddhatma )”, and others are seen as pure Soul , then that is called shukladhyan ( meditation as the Self ).
Once the goal ( dhyeya ) is decided and one becomes the dhyata ( one who meditates on the goal ) and when the two ( dhyeya and dhyata ) make a connection , then meditation ( dhyan ) at the time , is simultaneous and occurs naturally . The ego is present when the goal ( dhyeya ) is being decided , but it is absent during meditation . There is ego in doing actions , but not in meditation . Doing actions is not meditation , but that which results from the act of doing is meditation , and here , the ego is
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