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The Jaina Philosophy
when they are asked to read something enclosed in an envelope, instead of reading it in a proper way, they read it in an inverse way? We must find out the reason for this, and if the defect can be cured, how it is to be accomplished.
Whatever we see is through a medium, and if that medium is cloudy, then the reflection made by the medium is also cloudy. Supposing there is a mirror or looking glass placed in a certain position, and near by is an object, which is globular or spherical. It is a perfect sphere. If the surface of the looking glass is very clear, and there are no flaws on the surface of it, if it is perfectly pure, like a crystal is pure, and the rays of light strike the surface in a certain direction, then the reflection will be clear, in an angle which will be equal to the angle formed by the rays as they strike the surface of the spherical object.
If a reflection is made on the glass, it will be again reflected at the same angle which the rays as they left the object formed when they struck the glass. If the surface of the looking glass is rugged, rough, or there is something in the nature of a flaw, then that reflection will be blurred altogether. If it is excessively rough, then the reflection will be very much blurred, very indistinct indeed.
Where, there is an imperfect reflection, the fault lies with the medium from which it is reflected, not in what it is reflected from. So also in the mental substance on which reflections are made of external substances, the reflections will not be clear unless the mental substance is clear. When a person sees something in an inverted way, it means there is something wrong, there is some trouble, the mind stuff is not clear. What is this? If we can remove those imperfections in the mind stuff, the astral vision can be made clear.
Now if we are to have true clairvoyance, this mind stuff must be made clear. There ought to be no impurities. If there are any it explains the cause of this perverted figure which is seen. Let us
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