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[13] Liberation from Artadhyan and Raudradhyan
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is not really at fault. Our kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed)
are the real culprits.
Your kashays are your own inner enemies. There are no
other enemies on the outside. And those inner enemies are what
are killing you; nothing on the outside is hurting you.
Repenting Changes the Dhyan
If a person has committed severe raudradhyan, he can
turn it into artadhyan by doing pratikraman. If two people are
at fault of the same kind of raudradhyan, where they both have
expressed a desire to kill someone, their inner state for violence
is raudradhyan. If one of them goes home and sincerely repents
for having such a destructive bhaav, his raudradhyan will
become artadhyan, while the other will continue his
raudradhyan.
Through repentance, raudradhyan can be changed to
artadhyan. With repentance, one is diverted from a birth in hell
to a birth in the animal kingdom. With further intense repentance,
one can turn raudradhyan into dharmadhyan. With initial
repentance, raudradhyan turns into artadhyan and with repeated
repentance it becomes dharmadhyan. Actions and events may
not change, but changes are taking place from within.
The minute you turn your back on raudradhyan, by
repenting, changes will occur. But if you take pleasure in it and
insist, ‘No, that man needs to be punished. I am correct in
thinking that way,’ then that will take you all the way to the
lowest form of life (nigod). Coming back into the human form
will be very difficult. So beware; to take pleasure in raudradhyan
will make you regress back to the lowest life form.
So never do raudradhyan and if it occurs, then repent for
it. Also, never do artadhyan, and if it occurs then repent for it.
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