Meaning of dhyana | Babel Free

Definitions

A type of profound meditation.

Hinduism, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Thus the Kaivalyopanisad accords equal importance to Sraddha (faith-regard), devotion (bhakti) and meditation (dhyana) for the attainment of the highest knowledge.”

“The beginning must be made with pathawi-kasina, and then the dhyánas, &c., must be taken alternately, as from the first dhyána to the third, then to ákásánancháyatana, and so on to the end⟳.”

“Each of the three planes may be experienced through developing the dhyānas in meditation - so here we have⟳ yet another way of describing higher states of consciousness.”

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