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Quiz
on Preksha (answers
at the bottom) |
- What is the meaning of Preksha? Why this system of Meditation
has been nominated ‘Preksha Meditation?
- How many components are of this system and what they are?
- What is the basis of Preksha Meditation?
- What is the purpose of Preksha Meditation?
- What is the spiritual nature of Preksha?
- What is the scientific basis of Preksha?
- What is the procedure of Preksha?
- What are the major benefits of Preksha?
- What are the general benefits of Preksha?
- What are the physical benefits of Preksha?
- What are the mental benefits of Preksha?
- What are the emotional benefits of Preksha?
- What are the spiritual benefits of Preksha?
- What is the deference between seeing and thinking?
- What is the deference between conscious and mind?
- What is the works of mind?
- What is the meaning of Kayotsarg?
- Why one practices Kayotsarg?
- How many types of stress are counted and what is the strong
means to release it?
- What is the cause of physical stress?
- What is the main cause of mental stress?
- What is the main cause of emotional stress?
- Why Antar-yatra is practiced?
- What is Dirgha-Shwas-Preksha (long breathing)?
- Why Dirgha-Shwas-Preksha (long breathing) is practiced?
- Why Shwas is taken a support while meditating?
- Why Shareer-Preksha is spiritually beneficial?
- What is Chaitanya Kendra ( Psychic Center )?
- How many and what they are?
- Where they are in the body?
- What is the benefit of practicing Chaitanya Kendra Preksha?
- Where do the emotions originate from?
- Which Psychic Center helps in developing the ability of
knowledge?
- Which Psychic Center helps in pacifying the passion of
anger?
- In making decision smart and developing the strength of
mind which Psychic Center helps there?
- What is Leshya?
- What is Leshya Dhyan?
- What is the benefit of Leshya Dhyan?
- Where should it be concentrated for changing the negative
emotions and with which color?
- Where should it be concentrated for transforming the sensual
passions and with which color?
- Where should it be concentrated for awakening the intuition
power and with which color?
- Where should it be concentrated for pacifying anger and
with which color?
- Where should it be concentrated for developing the ability
of knowledge and with which color?
- What is Anupreksha?
- What is Bhavna?
- Why is it necessary to know about Physiology for a practitioner
of Preksha?
- What is cell?
- What is tissue?
- What is muscle?
- What is organ?
- What is body system?
- How many systems are in the human body? What are they?
- What is the skeletal system and how does it work ?
- What is the main work of muscular system?
- What is the main work of the respiratory system?
- What is the main work of the digestive system?
- What is the main work of the blood circulatory system?
- What is the main work of the nervous system?
- What is the main work of the endocrine system?
- What is the main work of the excretory system?
- Tell the names of the organs situated inside the middle
portion of the body.
- How can be understood the Kayotsarg scientifically?
- What is the relation between stress and muscles?
- Why does tension come out?
- What is the mal effect of prolonged tension?
- What is the simple and effective way to release the tension?
- What is the process of Antar-yatra?
- What is the physical benefit of the slow, long and rhythmic
breathing?
- How many kind of the breathing process? What are they?
- What causes of constipation?
- What is the negative effect of constipation?
- Which glands are the responsible for emotions and passions?
- Which body system can be compared and related with the
psychic centers?
- Who introduced the Preksha system?
- Who can practice it?
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- The meaning of Preksha is to see profoundly. To perceive
is the root element of meditation. Therefore this system
of meditation is called Preksha Meditation.
- There are mainly 8 components there-
a. Kayotsarg
b. Antar-Yatra
c. Shwas Preksha
d. Shareer Preksha
e. Chaitanya Kendra
f. Preksha
g. Leshya Dhyan
h. Anupreksha Bhavna
- The basis of it is the Jain Agams and the practical experience
of Bhagwan Mahaveer.
- The purpose of Preksha Meditation is the purification
of the psyche.
- The spiritual nature of Preksha Meditation is to know
you through yourself and to pacify the passions and emotions.
- The scientific basis of Preksha Meditation is anatomy,
physiology and psychology. The change happens on the body,
mind and emotional state.
- The prime procedure is to see and to know. It develops
the ability of perception. The other additional procedures
are-Asanas, Pranayam, Kayotsarg, Shwas Preksha, Shareer
Preksha, Chaitanya Kendra Preksha, Leshya Dhyan, Anupreksha
and Bhavna.
- Healthy Body, Peaceful Mind, Purified Emotions and Spiritual
Development are the major benefits of Preksha Meditation.
- The general benefits of Preksha are as intuition, self-confidence,
activeness, creativity, and discerning power.
- It brings the lightness in the body, causes to healthy
immunity, chemical balance, regulates the body system and
gets rid of many diseases. These are the physical benefits
of Preksha Meditation.
- It reduces the stress. It increases awareness, concentration,
memory power, positive thinking and brings balance in life.
These are the mental benefits of Preksha Meditation.
- It purifies the emotions, decreases passion of anger,
arrogance, greed and deceit and awakens the state of Veetarag-free
from attachment and aversion.
- They are perception, self-realization, faith, and bliss.
- Seeing activates the consciousness whereas thinking activates
the brain and mind. One can't think while seeing. Seeing
is the strong means of getting rid of uncontrolled thinking
process.
- Conscious is a part of consciousness. Consciousness is
like the Sun and Conscious is like a ray of the Sun. Mind
is the instrument working through the power of consciousness.
Conscious works like boss and mind works like servant.
- Memory, imagination, thinking and planning are the works
of mind.
- There are two words in it-Kaya+utsarg= Kaya means body
and Utsarg means to give up. Kayotsarg means to control
the physical fickleness and give up the attachment with
physical body.
- To release the stress, to experience the separation between
body and soul, to give up the negative attachment with the
body one practices Kayotsarg.
- There are three types of stress-physical, mental, and
emotional. The Kayotsarg is the strong means to release
it.
- It is excessive physical labor and imbalance between labor
and rest.
- It is excessive mental labor and anxiety.
- Negative emotions and passions like anger, jealousy, fear,
and hatred.
- To uplift of energy unlimitedly stored at the Center of
Energy situated at the lowest part of the spinal cord.
- To concentrate on slow, long and rhythmic process of breathing
is called Dirgha-Shwas-Preksha.
- For awareness, perception, concentration, neutrality,
and living in present.
- It is a pure inner natural process of life. It is beyond
liking and disliking. It is controlled voluntary and involuntary.
- It purifies the perception and awakens the sleeping conscious.
It helps in subtle observance.
- Chaitanya Kendra is the specific places in our physical
body where our consciousness manifests itself intensively.
- They are 13, called-
Shakti Kendra (Center of Energy),
Swasthya Kendra (Center of Health),
Taijas Kendra (Center of Bio-electricity),
Anand Kendra (Center of Bliss),
Vishuddhi Kendra (Center of Purity),
Brahma Kendra (Center of Celibacy),
Prana Kendra (Center of Vitality),
Chakshus Kendra (Center of Vision),
Apramad Kendra (Center of Vigilance),
Darshan Kendra (Center of Intuition),
Jyoti Kendra (Center of Enlightenment),
Shanti Kendra (Center of Peace),
Gyana Kendra (Center of Knowledge).
- Shakti Kendra ( Center of Energy ) is situated at the
lower end of the spinal code.
Swasthya Kendra ( Center of Health ) is situated at the
two inches below of the navel.
Taijas Kendra (Center of Bio-electricity) is situated at
the navel.
Anand Kendra (Center of Bliss) is situated on the middle
of the chest, near the heart.
Vishuddhi Kendra (Center of Purity) is situated on the middle
of the throat.
Brahma Kendra (Center of Celibacy) is situated at the tip
of the tongue.
Prana Kendra (Center of Vitality) is situated at the tip
of the nose.
Chakshus Kendra (Center of Vision) is situated inside of
both the eyes. Apramad Kendra ( Center of Vigilance ) is
situated inside of both the ears.
Darshan Kendra ( Center of Intuition ) is situated between
both the eye-brows.
Jyoti Kendra ( Center of Enlightenment ) is situated on
the middle of the forehead.
Shanti Kendra ( Center of Peace ) is situated on the front
portion of the head. Gyana Kendra ( Center of Knowledge
) is situated on the top of the head.
- Physical Health, Mental strength, and Emotional Purification
are the visible effects of it.
- The emotions originate from the glands.
- Gyana Kendra ( Center of Knowledge ) helps there.
- Meditating on Shanti Kendra ( Center of Peace ) and Jyoti
Kendra ( Center of Enlightenment ) one can pacify the passion
of anger.
- The Center of Intuition helps there.
- Leshya is the stream of emotion of six colors like black,
blue, grey, red, yellow and white. First three colors of
them effect negatively. Leshya creates the aura around the
body.
- To concentrate on colored steam of emotion is Leshya Dhyan.
- It changes the negative colors into positive, transforms
the passions, awakens intuitive power, pacifies anger and
develops the right knowledge.
- It is on Anand Kendra ( Center of Bliss ) with bright
green color.
- It is on Vishuddhi Kendra ( Center of Purity ) with bright
blue color.
- It is on Darshan Kendra ( Center of Intuition ) with bright
red color of rising Sun.
- It is on Jyoti Kendra ( Center of Enlightenment ) with
bright white color like of snow.
- It is on Gyan Kendra ( Center of Knowledge ) with bright
yellow color of sunflower.
- To think over and over on the particular subjects of breaking
down the delusion is Anupreksha. It is also a kind of meditation?
- It is a meditation for impressing the unconscious mind
with positive wordings of fulfilling the hearty desire.
- Most of the processes of Preksha Meditation are related
to physiology so it is necessary to have a general knowledge
about it for a practitioner.
- The smallest independently functioning unit in the structure
of an organism is cell. It is a basic unit of living thing
OR The smallest structural unit of an organism that is capable
of independent functioning, consisting of one or more nuclei,
cytoplasm, and various organelles, all surrounded by a semi
permeable cell membrane.
- It is an aggregation of morphologically similar cells
and associated intercellular matter acting together to perform
one or more specific functions in the body. There are four
basic types of tissue: muscle, nerve, epidermal, and connective.
- Muscle is an organ composed of bundles or sheets of muscle
tissue that is specialized to undergo repeated contraction
and relaxation, thereby producing movement of body parts,
maintaining tension, or pumping fluids within the body.
- An organ is a complete and independent part of body that
has a specific function.
- Body system is a group of physiologically or anatomically
complementary organs or parts: the nervous system; the skeletal
system.
- They are mainly 9 like -
1. The skeletal system
2. The Muscular system
3. The Respiratory system
4. The Digestive system
5. The Blood circulatory system
6. The Nervous system
7. The Endocrine system
8. The Excretory system
9. The Procreator system
- It is a bodily system that consists of the bones, their
associated cartilages, and the joints, and supports and
protects the body, produces blood cells, and stores minerals.
It shapes and sizes the body.
- It helps in movement. It maintains beauty and strength
of the body.
- It helps in taking in the pure vital energy and taking
out the impure air through the breathing process.
- Digestive system helps in many ways from chewing to digest
the food.
- Blood provides the essential elements to the cells.
- This system regulates the body's responses to internal
and external stimuli.
- This system of glands produces endocrine secretions that
help to control bodily metabolic activity.
- It absorbs the minerals and excretes the remaining out.
- They are the kidneys, the large intestine, the small intestine,
the spleen, the pancreas, the gallbladder, the liver, the
stomach, the diaphragm, the heart, and the lungs.
- The muscles and nerves are relaxed in the Kayotsarg at
the result of free from stress and tension.
- It increases the electrical force in the muscles during
the stressful situation and the muscles start to contract
because of that. Every emotion manifests through the muscles.
- A man has to face favorable and unfavorable situations
in his day-to-day life a lot. This creates the mental worry
or emotional strain that makes natural relaxed behavior
impossible. The physical body can adjust it to some extent.
When the stress or stain stays for longer time or attacks
frequently on the mind and body it becomes tension.
- It creates many psychosomatic diseases like high blood
pressure, sugar imbalance, ulcer, asthma etc.
- It is Kayotsarg.
- It starts from the lowest end of the spinal cord up to
the top of the head-from the Shakti Kendra to Gyan Kendra
through the spinal cord situated inside of the backbone.
- This type of breathing reduces the wear and tear of the
body, enhances the capacity of lungs to absorb the oxygen,
controls the high blood pressure and balances the metabolism.
- They are of two types-outer and inner. The breathing through
nostrils is known as outer and metabolic process in the
cell is inner one.
- They are over-eating, irregularity in having food, to
hold the need of going rest room and the aging processes.
- They are laziness, slowwitted, indigestion, vomiting,
dullness, headache, piles, fickleness of mind etc.
- They are mainly two-adrenal and gonads. Other glands help
them.
- They are the nervous and endocrine systems.
- A Great Saint and Sage Acharya Mahapragya Ji introduced
it in 1970 after his long practice of 24years.
- The person who believes in spirituality, desires to awaken
his divinity and transformation himself can practice it.
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