Confluence of Opposites

SR No.: 006704
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain
Publication Year: 1921
Total Pages: 422
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
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ásrava and bandha, the third and fourth tattvas respectively. The coming together of spirit and matter is what is signified by asravn, and the law which governs it may be described in the following words : All actions of embodied living beings, whether mental or physical or vocal, are accompanied by an infux of inatter towards the soul. There is a constant stream of material vibrations eternally knocking and pressing against the senses which they are constantly engaged in transmitting to the soul. Whether I see, hear, smell, eat or touch anything. I only extract and draw to myself a quantity of different kinds of sensory stimulus or material. Even when I do not attend to this ceaseless traffic from without and shut myself up in the closet of the mind, sensations, implying actual intercourse between the ego and the sensory centres of the brain, continue. If I speak I am conscious of hearing my own voice and of perceiving the muscular sensations of the organs involved in articulation of words. Here also the flow of the raw material of sensation is continued uudiminished. There is no rest ; no interruption ; no holiday with these intruders on the senses. The eye, no doubt, may obtain a sort of respite if it be shut, and the tongue is also capable of being protected in a similar manner to a great extent. But the condition of the skin, the nose and the ear is altogether pitiable ; they are meant to serve as the open doors of a courtesan's house and must give admission to whosoever may care to pass in.