Gandhi Before Gandhi

SR No.: 007501
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bipin Doshi, Priti Shah
Publisher: Jain Academy Educational Research Center Promotion Trust Mumbai
Publication Year: 2009
Total Pages: 198
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & History
File Size: 34 MB

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GANDHI BEFORE GANDHI
five minutes it has another form; and in five more minutes it has still another form. In the ordinary waking state we see one form which is destroyed and we see another form and so on. In the clairvoyant state you will be able to see those three forms at once, not all jumbled together. You will be able to get a clear idea of their relation to one another. You will be able to distinguish clearly between the past, present and future.
A great writer has said that there are two conditions necessary for concentration. One is called isolation and the other distribution. Isolation is to be able to separate your consciousness from external things. Distribution is power to apply that strength so acquired, to the good of the whole world. A person with the power of isolation and the faculty of distribution only, can concentrate. Persons who are controlled by greed, jealousy and such evil tendencies cannot concentrate. In order that a person may not be influenced by the vibrations of the external world, by the confused thoughts of people, the deprived conditions of things in the world, it is necessary that they acquire independence from prejudices. He must have independence of thought. One who thinks, because he was born in certain circumstance, that he is duty bound to believe in certain dogmas, cannot concentrate.
If they cannot be seen in order but are all jumbled together, it shows the mind is not clear and has not acquired the pure faculty or power of clairvoyance. It was in this way that development was made in ancient days in India by the great masters and sages. Progress in the sciences were made in the same way. They behold and studied the human body internally and externally. It was not found necessary to perform anatomical experiments in those days. By concentration and looking within, and looking at the forms which were left in the astral light, they understood the nature of the whole world. Perfect science was the result of these experiments. We need to revive the same faculty within us.
Secondly his heart must be completely independent. He must have full liberty. If his heart is controlled by lower emotions, he is then a slave to those emotions. Liberty means perfect freedom.
Concentration to develop Clairvoyance
To develop clairvoyance, the first necessity is the ability to concentrate. What does that mean to us? It means that the mind stuff should acquire stability. The stable element of the mind must become predominant. Whether you formulate it in philosophical, poetical, or scientific language, yon must say the mind must be made stable, that it must be able to concentrate. Not all people can concentrate. If that were so we would know well this, as a matter of fact they do not know. That is the evidence that all have not as yet developed the same faculty or ability to concentrate.
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