Jain Journal 1980 07

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

Page 16

JULY, 1980
to drop them. If one keeps holding onto a longtime pain, one will feel the pain of self-destruction. If you know that someone harbors resentment against you, and you want to retaliate, you are increasing the load of negative vibrations. You are inviting negative feedback and reaction. You are accelerating and escalating your own form of war. And war we see outside is no different from this. That is why somewhere, somehow, someone has to bring an end to these feelings. At least by getting rid of these tendencies in your own consciousness, you are not adding more violence and more destructiveness to this already burdened world. On the contrary. By clearing your consciousness and making the whole area lean, you are carrying a clean and pleasant fragrance wherever you go.
After all, the theory of vibrations is the theory of multiplication. The pebble you drop into the water spreads in larger and larger concentric circles and reaches the opposite shore. If you drop a violent thought into the universe, it multiplies. Panic breeds panic. Fear breeds fear. Violence breeds violence. Why not choose to stop this cycle of violence ? Why not drop a loving thought into the universe and watch its positive effect ?
There is already the natural process of decay and decomposition of matter going on in this universe. There is no need for man to add to that process. Instead, if you mentally prepare and watch in your meditation that you are dropping all the bleak, heavy, and dark vibrations clouding your consciousness, you will see that they are going out. You are throwing them out. Afterwards, there is no need to scratch and look at them again and get the foul odor.
What you have to do is plant a small seed of maitri, amity, which will absorb that manure and turn it into fertilizer. You will see that sometimes roses and fruits grow where garbage has been thrown. These plants have the capacity to turn even garbage and manure into flowers and fruits. In the same way, when you sow a right positive thought and allow this thought to turn over in the ground of your being, it becomes transformed. It will grow a feeling of love, of reverence, of friendliness, of amity. A beautiful seed-thought can transform those buried vibrations into useful fertilizer and permeate strength and positive feeling in your whole consciousness.
Once there were two boys who wanted to tease an old sage and prove that he was not wise. One of them caught a small bird and held it behind his back. The boys challenged the sage, “Is the bird alive or 'dead ?" If he answered, "Alive," they were going to crush its neck.