Abstract Thinking: [35.02] - Practice & Technique - The Anupreksha of Toleration

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Subject

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Mahaprana Dhvani

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Kayotsarga (Self-Awareness by Relaxation)

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Drink in the blue colour with each inhalation. As you breathe in, visualize that atoms of blue are entering your body.

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Practise blue-coloured meditation on the Centre of Purity. In other words focus your attention on the Centre of Purity.

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Now focus your attention on the Centre of Enlightenment (in the middle of the forehead), and suggesting to yourself:

• The spirit of toleration is developing.
• Also mental equilibrium

Repeat the above words aloud nine times; and then repeat them mentally nine times.

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Contemplate upon the following:

• Physical sensibility
• Weather-induced sensibility
• Disease-induced sensibility
• Mental impressions
• Pleasure and pain
• Prosperity-adversity
  
• Emotional response:
  
• Contradictory ideas
  
• Contradictory behaviour
• Contradictory interests

I am subject to such responses, but I wish to mitigate their influence. If these responses grow, my own powers would decline The less influenced I am by these, the greater my powers. Thus the cultivation of toleration is the great secret of success in my life.

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Conclude the exercise with Mahaprana Dhvani.

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