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It has become relative. That which we think of ten thousand years ago still exists. How? Jain philosophers have given an explanation of that. They have said: Our mind is material. We think through the medium of matter. Matter has categories, associations and an environment. For thinking we use matter. After thinking the thoughts scatter. They become free particles in air, in the cosmos. The cosmos is a treasure house, a wonder. There are a lot of things lying around there. It is good that contemporary man is not able to see that or he will be obsessed with looting it! His fascination with other treasures may also wane. The one who sets out on a quest for the treasures in the sky will give up all other quests. Against this background where we are sitting, one does not know how many pictures of thoughts of how many beings are hanging. Lakhs and crores of them. No painter has painted these pictures. They are those that are born out of thoughts of every thinking person. These pictures cannot be read, they can only be seen. Thinking never takes place in language but in pictures. You may know that in some cultures the script for language was pictorial. All details of thought are
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