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**** Astral Vision apply the law to the ordinary state of a man's condition in the world. Suppose a person is asked to judge of anything, we will say an act. Something is proposed to a man. He is told to do it; that it is a good thing. If he has a pure mind he will be able to judge rightly. If some other force is working on his mind, if that mind is not clear,, and free from impurity, his judgment will also be of a disturbed character. If greed is working on him, he will judge it as to whether it will bring him any money. All reflections coming out from a mind which is tainted by greed, will be of that character.
If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy they will think it is useless, that it does no good to themselves, to exercise love, and sympathy, and that if they show love and sympathy to others it will work no good result for themselves. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate. It is not the fault of love, but the fault lies in the mind which reflects the perverted idea. It gives out a disturbed reflection.
There are also several impurities which are of a manifold character. It may be the result of a physically diseased condition of the mind. I told you in a previous lecture the mind is made of activity, stability and grossness. If one of these elements predominates, it will colour the character of the mind. If a person is very gross, the mental condition will be very gross and that mind will reflect only gross figures. It will not give any fresh or any new light to such a person. Now this is only so far as the physical cause is concerned.
There are mental causes which are lust, jealousy passion, anger, deceitfulness, and all these forces working within the mind disturb the mind and it will always give out disturbed reflections. Such disturbed minds cannot reflect the truth.
Other vibrations will also be of a defective character. If the disturbance can be removed, suppressed, or destroyed, if the anger, jealously, passion and lust, can be annihilated, then pure
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| SR No. | 006901 |
| Book Title | Jaina Philosophy |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Virchand R Gandhi, Kumarpal Desai |
| Publisher | World Jain Confederation |
| Publication Year | 2009 |
| Total Pages | 298 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 5 MB |