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is covering your consciousness, but he does not give you anything from himself. What is given is borrowed and what is borrowed is not yours. Just as a man does not become rich with borrowed possessions, though he may appear to be, so you cannot become enlightened with borrowed gifts. Always you will remember, "I have received this gift, this grace. It is not mine." That feeling of obligation always remains with the borrowed gifts. No teacher can give you what you don't have. What he really does is uncover what is covered. He comes and takes off your layers of ignorance and says, "Here you are. It is yours, only it was covered."
The Three Jewels
The means by which this living energy evolves are three. They are right vision or seeing, (samyag darshana), right knowledge (samyag jnana), and right conduct (samyag charitra). These are known as the three jewels of Jain philosophy. With these three jewels we evolve and liberate ourselves.
What is right vision? Right vision is not belief in a church or temple or anything outside, but see and believe in yourself. You believe that "I am consciousness, and the quality of consciousness is the state of perfection. This is my quality." From this understanding the whole philosophy starts. As long as a person does not have this vision or belief, so long she or he is working only outside, on the periphery
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