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Jain Conference Herald
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sort of thing internally as winds blowing upon one are regarded
externally; one feels the wind blowing all around him, but of course understands it to be the wind, which will die down in due course. And in the same way such feelings as reluctance when contemplating some disliked activity, or any feelings of the mohaniya group, may be looked upon as winds blowing over one, perhaps even hurricanes; that is, as some external force flying around one, to one's discomfort. I suppose the karmas, at least the mohaniya karmas, can be known inwardly by being felt, as one feels hunger etc felt as forces or tendencies urging us to some action which perhaps we do not wish to do, and which sometimes, as Mr. Bligh said somewhere in one of his books, are too quick for you, as they operate and you say or do some thing before you have time to stop them. I suppose these forces that one feels may be regarded as Karmas by him, and not-self. And I suppose they have real substance if one could only see it,-pudgala welling up within one.
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EACH SELF IS ONE NOT MANY.
It is most important to get a true understanding, and words are used as the only means of conveying to another person any piece of knowledge, and you cannot by speaking impart your knowledge or thought to another man, and in speaking you express not the whole but only part of the whole truth. This is where the question of points of views comes in, and it is very important, because vexation is often brought about by looseness of expression,-due possibly to looseness of thought, and even possibly to false views. Anyhow, it is most important to understand that in speaking of my objective self, my subjective self, my supreme and all such similar expressions; my higher self and my lower self, the self in question is not more than one, I myself am one; and these different descriptions of it are simply names of distinct modes in which I live. I am not different from myself whether spoken of as higher self or lower self; whether as objective self, supreme self; it is quite true,-no, that is quite wrong
| SR No. | 536605 |
| Book Title | Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald 1912 09 Pustak 09 Ank 09 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Mohanlal Dalichand Desai |
| Publisher | Jain Shwetambar Conference |
| Publication Year | 1912 |
| Total Pages | 158 |
| Language | Gujarati |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald, & India |
| File Size | 15 MB |