Self Develoment By Meditation

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Self Develoment By Meditation To comprehend and to practice meditation is obligatory for every man in modern-day world. Meditation is the wonderful method of realizing dharma in human life. In fact, it will be more apt to say that meditation is an aspect of religion connected with breathing. Meditation is a form of religion. In modern times we find religion and its different aspects being hotly debated and discussed, but there has been no discussion, no discourse on the form of religion, on its spiritual aspect. Several so-called religious people have turned religion into a subject of controversy and polemic. They seem to have forgotten that religion is not a subject for polemic or controversy, rather it is a subject of spiritual dialogue, spiritual purification, soul discovery and spiritual karma.

Meditation is spiritual or self-purification and self- discovery. Meditation helps such flowers blossom on earth as will give out spiritual fragrance. Therefore, I request, I exhort the entire world that it should get itself introduced with the fragrance of religion through the medium of meditation.

Shri Shirish Muni and Shri Sailesh-the former an ascetic and the latter a believing Jain-are deeply involved in trying to realize my dream in the field of meditation. Their right and proper efforts deserve my blessings. The responsibility of getting the original Hindi version of this book published was taken over by Shri Vinod Sharma : I wish him spiritually all the best. Dr. Dharam Singh of Punjabi University, Patiala, accepted our request to make time to render it into English: he will ever be an object of my blessing for the labour he has put in to make this English translation possible as well as for what he has been doing to help various members of the Jain Sraman Sangh in the perusal of their academic studies. Our thanks are also due to Mr. Ravinder Jain and Purshottam Jain of Malerkotla and Dr. Rajesh Ranjan and Dr. Paryudumna Shah Singh of Punjabi University who helped in a variety of ways in the publication of this book.

The series of meditation camps we have been holding is an exercise aimed at the universal weal, the welfare of all. At this auspicious hour I welcome all those dedicated young men and others to join and make a joint endeavour to bring about a beautiful, clean and healthy social set-up through the medium of meditation.