TATRA PRATYAYA EKATANATA DHYANAM
WHEN THE THOUGHT WAVES CONTINUOUSLY FLOW ON
ONE OBJECT THAT IS CALLED DHYAN
As was mentioned in the past , there are three remaining things out of eight things of the ASHATANG YOGA OR THE EIGHT FOLD pathway. we started with the DHARANA and now we are told about DHYAN . So when we pick an object of our concentration, it is just an object, Once we start concentrating on it and our concentration is not broken by any other thought wave, this is called DHARANA.
So if I decide to make some cake, it is the object of my concentration. But then i have some work at office and then my thoughts are not on the cake and so it is not DHYAN . But it is week end and I have guests coming for the dinner and so I do get the ingredients and start baking the cake . I pay my FULL and UNDIVIDED attention to baking cake , that now becomes DHYANAM. So the object that we select to concentrate upon is the DHARANA and it becomes DHYAN only when we have undivided concentration on it. When we concentrate on baking cake , we know what is cake made of and what is proportion of different ingredients that go in making bake and exact temperature that we need to bake it.The same thing happens when we decide to concentrate on a statue of our favourite Deity, we start realizing the things behind the Deity and the supreme being and the ultimate spirit and so on . This is DHANAM ,which will lead to SAMADHI.-like the delicious cake comes out when we give our full attention to baking it.
WHEN THE THOUGHT WAVES CONTINUOUSLY FLOW ON
ONE OBJECT THAT IS CALLED DHYAN
As was mentioned in the past , there are three remaining things out of eight things of the ASHATANG YOGA OR THE EIGHT FOLD pathway. we started with the DHARANA and now we are told about DHYAN . So when we pick an object of our concentration, it is just an object, Once we start concentrating on it and our concentration is not broken by any other thought wave, this is called DHARANA.
So if I decide to make some cake, it is the object of my concentration. But then i have some work at office and then my thoughts are not on the cake and so it is not DHYAN . But it is week end and I have guests coming for the dinner and so I do get the ingredients and start baking the cake . I pay my FULL and UNDIVIDED attention to baking cake , that now becomes DHYANAM. So the object that we select to concentrate upon is the DHARANA and it becomes DHYAN only when we have undivided concentration on it. When we concentrate on baking cake , we know what is cake made of and what is proportion of different ingredients that go in making bake and exact temperature that we need to bake it.The same thing happens when we decide to concentrate on a statue of our favourite Deity, we start realizing the things behind the Deity and the supreme being and the ultimate spirit and so on . This is DHANAM ,which will lead to SAMADHI.-like the delicious cake comes out when we give our full attention to baking it.
No comments:
Post a Comment