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→ध्यानस्य प्रयोजनम् ॥ Benefits of Dhyana: Adding content with reference - to be edited
Meditation is believed to lead to enlightenment and self-transforming peak experiences.<ref name=":1" />
Meditation is believed to lead to enlightenment and self-transforming peak experiences.<ref name=":1" />
Means to increase the fire of intelligence:
Yoga conceives human existence in the form of five sheaths or Koshas viz. annamaya kosha, prāṇamaya kośha, manomaya kosha, vijnānamaya kosha and Anandamaya kosha.<ref>Pandey A. (2022), [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362889666_Chapter_2_Human_Self_Work_and_of_Human_Being_Indian_Worldview_and_Implications_for_Management_Practices_and_Scholarship Human Self, Work and of Human Being: Indian Worldview and Implications for Management Practices and Scholarship], Indigenous Indian Management, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.</ref> Each of the five koshas or encasements of the atman has a different form of agni responsible for its development.
The agni of intelligence is the fire of discrimination; the fire of the Vijnanamaya kosha, through which we can discern truth and falsehood, good and bad, right and wrong. The fire of the outer mind, manomaya kosha, is neutral morally. It simply digests impressions. The fire of intelligence digests these further, extracting their meaning, quality or content – their underlying idea. From it our basic values and beliefs are constructed. The agni of intelligence builds up the body of dharma, our field of insight and understanding.
Meditation is the means of increasing our fire of intelligence. For this our thoughts are the fuel and the witness consciousness is the fire. By remaining in the state of the seer, all things become fuel for awareness.<ref>David Frawley (1999), [https://archive.org/details/yogaayurvedaselfhealingandselfrealizationdavidfrawley_757_/mode/2up Yoga & Ayurveda], Wisconsin: Lotus Press.</ref>
== Neurophysiological view of Meditation ==
== Neurophysiological view of Meditation ==