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Aptavani-4
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Dhyan (Meditation)
The Nature of Dhyan
Questioner: Why is meditation (dhyan) not mentioned in
Jainism?
Dadashri: All four dhyans do appear in the Jain religion.
They occur on their own. Dhyan is not something one has to do.
Questioner: What is dhyan?
Dadashri: Dhyan simultaneously occurs while one is
doing worldly activities. But to do the dhyan, wouldn’t you have
to sit in one place?
Questioner: Yes.
Dadashri: That is called concentration (ekagrata).
Dhyan constantly takes place in everyone. What is dhyan? If
someone says to you, “You do not have any sense,” you will
experience raudradhyan. It will happen naturally. If someone
were to push you around, it will come about.
Questioner: How does this dhyan occur? What is its
stage?
Dadashri: If someone were to say to you, “You have
ruined everything,” its internal effect on you, the anger that it
incites, is raudradhyan.
Whenever the mind says, “What will happen to me?” that
is called artadhyan. When you hear about the rationing of sugar
and the mind says, “The sugar is being rationed. We did not buy