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The Jaina Philosophy + 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 our entire 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 our mind which we are not aware are there. A person may pass through the street and not be aware that he is noting all that is going on about him. In fact he is not conscious that he has seen them, that they have been received and stored away as it were. They have not gone deep enough to affect 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 consciousness itself is in the centre. When the vibrations are very strong they go on and pass through all the layers of different grades of matter and substance until they reach the very substance which we call the sheath of under standing. It is only when they reach through the physical body, the sheath of vitality, of thought and understanding, that you form a rational idea and come to certain conclusions, and feels that you know certain things. Many vibrations do not reach all the states.
They do not reach the finer substance in the centre, and no thought is generated, and you have no understanding, you have arrived at no decision. The result is certain forces or impressions are made on only intermediate states of the external forces and
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