Book Title: Jain Philosophy
Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi
Publisher: Agamoday Samiti

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________________ 204 ther they had receive blished between the subject and the operator. In this case nothing is done but the sensing of operations going on between them. It is a sort of telepathy which is going on between the subject and the operator. Now we generally think the right kind of operations are only those which we perform consciously, and therefore that if the operator does not think actively on a subject he is not thinking at all. There are dynamic and static vibrations. If they are not active, dynamic forces they are static, and they have not been called forth. Under these circumstances we are not conscious of those vibrations which have been created under other circumstances. We sometimes think because we do not bring all our mind's thought to bear on a subject, that it is not in our mind at all. There we make a great mistake. The fact is that in the past as well as in the present, there are many static forces in hour mind which we are not aware are there. A person may pass through the street and not be aware that he is nothing all that is going on about him. In fact he is not conscious that he has seen them, that they hare been received and stored away as it were. They have not gone deep enougb to effect his waking consciousness, the active state of the mind. Vibrations coming from the external world will impinge on the mind stuff in different ways. Suppose the soul conciousness itself is in the centre. When Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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