The document discusses the effects of inauspicious karma on emotional, mental, and physical well-being, highlighting how negative emotions and endocrine imbalances lead to various psychosomatic disorders. It emphasizes the importance of holistic healing through meditation and therapeutic thinking to counteract negative karmic influences and promote positive virtues. Techniques such as visualization, contemplation, and fostering amity, compassion, and equanimity are suggested to restore health and improve overall well-being.

1. Arun Zaveri
www.ScientificMeditation.com
Phone: +91 22 2414-2989 Email: arunzaveri07@gmail.com
Paryushan Parva Lecture Series
Jain Center of Greater Boston
Norwood, Massachusetts, USA
September 2-9, 2013
Day 7
for
Emotional, Mental and Physical Well-being

2.  Fruition of inauspicious karma produces ashubh lesya
 Produces negative urges, impulses, and an imbalance
in the neuro-endocrine secretions in the body
 The hormonal imbalance produce powerful negative
emotions, feelings, and behavior:
 These produce emotional tensions as well as attract
more inauspicious karma – (the vicious cycle)
Fruition of Inauspicious Karma
The Root Cause of Emotional, Mental, and Physical Disorders
• Enmity
• Envy
• Cruelty
• Violence
• Impatience
• Insecurity
• Irrational fears
• Intolerance
• Anger
• Pride
• Deceit
• Greed
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3. Endocrine Imbalance & Emotional Tensions
Messages from
nucleus of cells
secrete toxins and
poisons into
blood-stream
The Perfect Recipe for Disaster!
CELL
Nucleus
 Weakens the immune system
 Causes inflammation in the body
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4. Most of the diseases are psychosomatic -- caused
or worsened by emotional tensions & stress
Physical Diseases & Disorders
 Heart disease
 Hypertension
 Diabetes
 Obesity
 Insomnia
 Depression
Emotional
Tensions
Emotional tensions are time bombs that eventually
explode into all kinds of physical ailments
 Nervousness
 Anxiety
 Headaches
 Acidity /Ulcer
 Arthritis
 Dermatitis
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5. And eventually succumb to
 the vicious circle of drugs and medicines
 harmful addictions and debilitating habits
The outcome is always the same
 pain, suffering, loss of health and wealth
 premature death!!
As remedies, most people
 try to “cure” the symptoms with medicines,
which often have severe side-effects, or
 find false relief in alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs
The Common Outcome
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6. Holistic Healing
The root causes of psychosomatic disorders must be
removed at the mental, emotional, and spiritual levels
Today, many doctors also agree that
Meditation
helps
Medication
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7.  Observe the subtle aspects of one’s own self by direct
perception, and produce desirable changes/effects via
contemplation, visualization and auto-suggestions
 Derived from ancient Jain philosophy and is supported
by modern scientific theories of body and mind
 Powerful tool for
• Removing the effects of inauspicious karma
• Replacing it with positive virtues
• Restoring emotional, mental, and physical health
• Living peaceful and happy life
Contemplative (Bhavana) Meditation
Therapeutic Thinking
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8.  Amity (Maitri)
 Appreciation (Pramod)
 Compassion (Karuna)
 Equanimity (Madhyastha)
Bhavanas
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9. Shubh Lesya
 Visualize and perceive bright light
surrounding the entire body
• Tejo – orange
• Padma – Yellow
• Shukla – white
 Produces a shubh lesya
that counteracts the effects of
inauspicious karma
 Balances the functions of the mind and
body
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10. Perception of Psychic centers
Knowledge (Cerebral Cortex)
Enlightenment (Pineal)
Intuition (Pituitary)
Purity (Thyroid)
Bliss (Thymus)
Bio-electricity (Adrenal)
Energy (Gonads)
Focusing full attention at the psychic centers along with
auto-suggestions harmonizes neuroendocrine secretions
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11. Bhavana - Therapeutic Thinking
 Positive thoughts permeates in every cell of the body
 Produces healing bio-chemicals
 Purges toxins
CELL
Nucleus
Messages
of therapeutic
bio-chemicals
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12. Amity
 By harming others one damages himself
 Enmity leads to irrational fears, cruelty, violence
 Friendship leads to fearlessness and peace
 Change negative patterns (e.g., blaming others)into
positive patterns (e.g., well wishes, politeness)
 Increase power of tolerance, purify own weakness
 Establish amity
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13. Appreciation of Good Qualities of Others
 Identify and acknowledge good qualities of others
 Have a positive attitude
 Avoid arguments
 Avoid finding faults or defects in others
 Encourage good qualities of others
 Reduces jealousy – a mental disorder that destroys
relationships with others and emotional well-being
of one’s own self
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14. Forgiveness
 Social and professional relationships improve
 Mind relaxes
 Friendship increases
 Ego vanishes
 Tolerance increases
 Forgive everyone while not considering the
other person’s age, status, rank, position, etc.
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15. Compassion
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16. Equanimity -
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17. Kayotsarg:
Steadiness
Relaxed muscles
Body cast away
Mental steadiness
Self-awareness
Feel separateness
No attraction / aversion
Message of equanimity
Only seeing & knowing
Contemplation:
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Positive virtues
Establish:
 Amity
 Appreciation
 Compassion
 Equanimity
Benevolent
Lesya
Taijjas Body
Purification of
Primal Karmic
Expressions
Inhibition of
Influx of Karma
Falling off
of Karma
Contemplative (Bhavana) Meditation
Soul (Atma)
Karma body
Taijjas body
Physical Body
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18. Steps of Contemplative Meditation:
 Preconditions: Place – body posture – Steadiness
 Recitation of Mantra
 Recitation of aim and resolve
 Relaxation with self-awareness
 Internal journey in the spinal cord
 Perception of:
• conscious breathing deliberately make long
• body
• psychic centres
• psychic colors (Lesya cleansing)
 Contemplation with Auto-suggestions
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