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Rules: each to his own
In this world there are two principles: sentience and insentience. Insentience or the gross objects are fixed. Sentience is not fixed. Science explored the rules operating in nature and explained them. But till today science has not been able to explain sentience or consciousness. That is because it is not fixed. Today a discovery is made tomorrow it changes and accordingly so do the rules. To explore the rules of the conscious is very difficult.
A man was walking when he chanced to see many crows sitting atop a house. He described the house to himself as the house of crows. He returned the same way in the evening and found not a single crow on the house. The crows had flown off but the house had not flown off. The house is fixed, how will it fly? Crows are sentient beings, they are alive, they are not fixed, how will they remain?
Beings are not fixed, a house is fixed. If a crow desires to sit on the building he will, if he wishes to fly he will and if he wishes to sit on the branch of a tree, he will. The house is gross, fixed, it cannot fly.
The rules operating in the world of the gross and the subtle matter are not alike. The rules operating
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