Gandhi Before Gandhi

Author(s): Bipin Doshi, Priti Shah
Publisher: Jain Academy Educational Research Center Promotion Trust Mumbai

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GANDHI BEFORE GANDHI
True clairvoyance
How do we see the past? The cause?
If we are to have true clairvoyance, the mind must be made clear. There ought to be no impurities. If there are any it will cause the perverted figure which is reflected. Let us apply the law to the ordinary state of a man's condition in the world. Suppose a person is asked to judge anything or something is proposed to a man, if he is asked to do something, whether it is a good thing or bad thing; if he has a pure mind he will be able to judge rightly. 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, any reflections coming out from a mind like this will be tainted by greed.
We will take one more example of this piece of paper. The cause of this paper was not paper. Formerly all these little particles which go to make this paper were in many different conditions. Different causes were brought to bear upon them and all these varied little particles became a piece of paper, such as we can see it with our physical eyes. The combination of the original molecules appears to us in a symmetrical form, as a piece of paper. At the same time the forces, which can pull apart all these different particles or molecules of the paper are changed, to bring closer the different particles. The paper is but a changed state of all the different factors which were effectual in bringing all those factors into the form of paper. The cause is not destroyed, though notevidently seen.
If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate.
If we know the present condition, or the link between cause and effect, and the forces working, we can then see the cause. So by seeing the result, also the different intermediate conditions, we can tell what the cause was. We can acquire this in an intellectual way, and it is only a mental process.
Can we see past, present and future at a time by clairvoyance?
It is not only things in the present that we see, but we can see things of the past and of the future too. How does that come about? Suppose a force is set in motion. That force as it is set out creates an activity in the world, and it will produce a result that will bear a relation corresponding to the motion which is the cause of that result. Suppose for instance one man strikes another man. An individual sees the blow, but does not see any further. He sees only the result, the blow. Now that result was the result of a quarrel or of something which was of such a nature as to produce a blow and the result of that blow is that one person has been knocked down
In clairvoyance they see all the things at one time. Both time and distance are annihilated, and they see the past. Not only that but also all causes and effects leave their impressions in the astral medium of ethereal matter which pervades the whole universe. In the same way we can know the future because it is the result of the present causes. If we see those causes, and the direction of these vibrations, we can tell what the result will be, that is the future.
In clear clairvoyance the past, present, and future are clearly separated. Suppose there are three stages of an act. What you first see is one form. In
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