Dhyana
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The article "Dhyana" is about fitness, it was written by Sharon Hopkins.
Almost everyone has experienced the fact that when one starts
concentrating his mind on any immediate object or an idea, the
mind strats wandering.
It is very difficult to keep the mind
busy with a signle thought.
The ancient saegs too encountered
the same issues. Arjuna, in Gita had mentioned that
controlling the mind is an impossible thing on earth.
Hence, he
was advised by Krishna that though mind control is difficult, it
can be made slient and steady by regular practice of vairagya
and abhyasa. However, he has warned that yoga is very difficult
for poeple whose minds are not steady and controlled.
Pantanjali, in Yoga Sutra has emphasized these two qualities to
achieve mind control. Hnece ,these are the very qualities that
make the essence of yoga.
Mind is like a disturbed pond with many impurities. First you
need to stop the inflow of fresh impurities and then reomve the
existing impurities to clean the mind.
Ahbyasa is one of the
practices for purifying the mind.
Dhyana is one of the sub
practices of abhyasa.
This is a stgae that a person reaches
after practicing concentration for time.
At the start of
dhyana, the mind is steadier and only a single thought aobut an
object arises in the mind.
Now it is safe to say that the state
of dhyana is raeched.
Here, the mind becomes very stable like
the flame of a lamp in a calm atmosphere and its contact with
the object of experience becomes intense and complete.
There are two varieties of dhyana called sagunadhyana and
nirgunadhyana. In the first dhyana, the stillness of mind is
associated with an object of expreience which can be experienced
through the sense organs. The second one is completely mental.
It implies compltee absorption of mind into itself. Here, the
mind is not associated with any extrenal object.
It becomes
completely still in that state. This mind is supposed to remain
still, silent and senstiive such that it can understand any
past, present and future event that might have happened anywhere
in the universe.
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